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More of the commonplace everywhere. That may be the best way to describe Boston's newest newspaper. But so far, the more has not coalesced into the better. The Record and Herald has a long way to go before it endears itself to its readers, and is able to shirk the stigma of being the remnant of two familiar, and exquisitely distinct. newspapers...
...Congress continues to shirk its responsibility, and the vocal majority must continue its outraged condemnations of our barbaric government policy at every possible opportunity. It is not enough to wait until next January in hopes that a new President will take office with the declaration that all aid to Thieu is being cut off. Even if such a President were elected, the calm interim in America would be bought with the limbs and lives of brave Indochinese who refuse to give in to the dictates of an arrogant regime and an intransigent foreign power...
Characteristic Smoothness. At one point, Susan Shirk, 26, a Ph.D. candidate in political science from M.I.T., asked-with a hint of dismay-how it happened that Richard Nixon had been invited to Peking. Chou was almost apologetic in his reply: "In contacting your Government to normalize relations, we must contact those who are in authority in your country. The governments of the two countries will bear the main responsibility for the normalization of relations between the two countries." With characteristic smoothness, he leaned toward the young scholar and added: "If Susan Shirk were the President of the U.S., then...
...President was doing all he could to end the war, but they did not want to have to parade in the streets to show their support. They preferred a more modest expression of unity. Dombrowski donated $5,000 to promote the cause, solicited another $5,000 from Mrs. Mary Shirk, a Redlands heiress to the Kimberly-Clark fortune. He opened offices on both coasts, began distributing some 200,000 "National Unity" bumper stickers daily. "We merely want all Americans to stand up and be counted for justice, honor and integrity," he says...
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