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Johnson ranted that the Republicans would "seek new ways to force race mixing on the people." Rockefeller labeled himself a "realistic conservative" and proclaimed: "Our party in Arkansas has not and will not become an arm of the right-wing crusade or of the other extreme." His slogan: "Win with Win." In the end, more than 54% of the voters decided to do just that. (He is particularly proud of his showing in school mock elections, in which students gave him 77%.) More significant for the Arkansas party's future, the G.O.P. this year fielded 520 candidates -more Republicans...
...Seek Compromise Solution...
...avoid a perpetual cloud of doubt and distrust, there must be a general reinvestigation of President Kennedy's assassination -- now, before the evidence becomes stale. Such an inquiry should seek to benefit from the lessons of the Warren Commission. Its voting members, as well as its investigators, should be able to devote their full time to the study. They should not be pressed by the White House or any authority to produce their evidence quickly, and they should amass all the evidence before structuring the presentation of their conclusions...
...Judas, and neither the Old Testament nor the New specifically forbids it, as does the Koran, which calls suicide "a much graver crime than homicide." But St. Augustine condemned it as "a detestable and damnable wickedness," perhaps to put a stop to a growing tendency of extremist Christians to seek instant sainthood via self-martyrdom. From the Middle Ages to the end of the 18th century in Europe, self-murder was stigmatized by the full force of church and state-a suicide's property was confiscated, his body was dragged through the streets and buried at a crossroads, with...
...point of the hierarchy's statement on contraception was its charge that "Government activities increasingly seek aggressively to persuade and even coerce the underprivileged to practice birth control" as a condition of gaining relief benefits. This, the bishops charged, was an infringement upon "the freedom of spouses to determine the size of their families"-an argument, ironically, that the Planned Parenthood association has always used to defend contraception. The accusation of coercion astounded and outraged officers of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, who insisted that U.S. poverty programs give birth-control advice and assistance only to those...