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...Rigid for Peace. It is this concern about getting too deeply involved that is most often expressed in editorials. "There must be a better way to carry on this war and bring it to an honorable conclusion," said Virginius Dabney's Richmond Times-Dispatch. "As things are going now, it will never end and the U.S. will be bled white. It has become obvious that little progress is being made, despite the presence of 500,000 U.S. soldiers in Viet Nam." The same fear has been expressed by the Miami Herald. "Politically, militarily and most important, honorably," said...
...Detroit Free Press Editor Mark Ethridge Jr. to negotiate a U.S. withdrawal on grounds that the National Liberation Front's program for South Viet Nam is much akin to U.S. principles (TIME, Oct 13). Otherwise, about all that is left the journalists is to resort to humor, as Richmond Times-Dispatch Columnist Ed Grimsley did last week. "Clearly what the country needs," he wrote, "is a defoliation expert-not to strip the jungles of Viet Nam but to defoliate the tangled thicket of contradictory views the Government officials, political leaders and journalistic pundits express on the war." Another Grimsley...
Church leaders worry that the growing strength of these two organizations could crystallize into irreparable hostility. In April, 30 leading Presbyterians published an open letter in several church journals, warning against the possibilities of rift. Last week Southern Presbyterian Moderator Marshall Dendy of Richmond announced that he had invited leaders of both factions to a peace parley in Atlanta next January...
...Affair of State." Most newspapers, North and South, played the story heavily but straight. Front-page pictures and reports were the rule, and most headlines reported the bridegroom's race. But editorials on the subject were scarce, although the Richmond News Leader called mixed marriages "eccentric" and said that "anything that diminishes his [Rusk's] personal acceptability is an affair of state." New York Post Columnist Harriet Van Home was sympathetic, commenting that "the intimate joys and sorrows of public figures must inevitably become the common gossip of the marketplace...
...behind bars after his white attorneys failed to convince Judge Franklin P. Backus of the Alexandria Corporation Court that he should not be held as a fugitive pending extradition to Maryland, where he is charged with inciting the July 24 Cambridge riot. Denied bail, Rap was hustled off to Richmond's escape-proof penitentiary, then to a nearby prison farm for what could be a month-long stay while the extradition battle is resolved. For light reading, he took along the little red book of Mao Tse-tung's thoughts...