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...long blue lines of uniformed police paid solemn tribute to four fallen comrades last week, a chill swept through the nation's largest and sixth largest municipal law-enforcement agencies. On successive days, nearly 5,000 policemen from a dozen states gathered in New York for the funerals of Black Patrolman Waverly M. Jones and his white partner, Joseph A. Piagentini. The two were riddled in the back with .45-cal. bullets while answering a routine call in East Harlem. In the nation's capital, hundreds of uniformed and plainclothes D.C. policemen attended services honoring Officers Jerard Foster...
That presents Washington with a triangular dilemma, wrapped in official mythology, encased in old enmities, and enshrouded in the shaky precedents of international law. The U.S. cannot recognize Peking's claim to Taiwan without disavowing an old ally and denouncing a solemn treaty commitment to defend the island. To uphold Chiang's contention that he represents the 800 million Chinese on the mainland, as well as those on Taiwan, is simply no longer tenable. To recognize the claims of both governments is impossible. The major questions...
...would be depressing to try to deal with Harvard objectively. It must be seen with the solemn reasonableness of a hooded executioner. Motion and sound is all. The picture is in the mind and there it is allowed to be what you wish. It can be beautiful if it is your own creation. Singing with the Black Flack Walbach Pack, or yakking with the nymphs of Holmes, holding firmly to love, and even firmer to an honest method of conversation with myself makes a substantial basis for potential creativity. I hope...
...carried their worries directly to Georges Pompidou; in a bristling letter warning of the dangers of "subordination to the Anglo-Saxon world," the group demanded that the President take steps to see that French would remain "the working language of an enlarged Europe." Pompidou's reply included a solemn pledge "to preserve the legitimate place" of the French language in Europe...
...first meeting of the National Black Economic Development Conference in Detroit just two years ago this week, a solemn, angry black man rose to read a "Black Manifesto." He demanded, among other things, $500 million in "reparations" from white U.S. churches and synagogues. What he wanted, said James Forman bluntly, was to be paid for past injustices. He calculated the bill at "$15 per nigger," and he urged black people "to commence the disruption of white racist churches and synagogues." Eight days later, Forman and some of his followers invaded Riverside Church, Manhattan's temple of liberal Protestantism...