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Abba Eban, the Israeli Foreign Minister, answered in ringing Churchillian cadences, coining the word "politicide" (death of a country) as the crime of which the Arabs were guilty (see THE WORLD). He was followed by a group of Arab and European spokesmen who either denounced Israel or admonished it against territorial aggrandizement. Of the rhetorical encirclement Eban is said to have quipped: "Never have so few owed so little to so many...
...opposed by House Republicans in a gambit to make headlines with their economy-in-Government line, and they carried along enough Democrats to win. In the second round, Mills and the Administration prevailed by preaching party loyalty and simple economic sense to the Democratic defectors. After all, Administration spokesmen pointed out, the G.O.P.'s success in resisting a raise in the debt ceiling was hardly compatible with its inability to win substantive reductions in the programs that necessitated the raise. As Wilbur Mills sees it, those in the legislative branch of government who opposed increasing the national debt limit...
...most conservative of Roman Catholic prelates, a handsome, ascetic man who in 1959 spoke glowingly of Franco's Spain while threatening to excommunicate anyone who voted for Communist-backed candidates in Sicily's local elections, then was one of the leading conservative spokesmen within the Vatican Council, opposing the schema of religious liberty, liturgical reform, modern Biblical criticism, the declaration clearing the Jews of guilt for the Crucifixion; of a heart attack; in Palermo...
...Secretary of Defense McNamara when he visited Harvard in November. The impulse behind those students who mobbed the Secretary and physically halted his car was one of frustration and pique--frustration at the apparent reluctance of the Administration's high officials at that time to confront the more articulate spokesmen of the strident antiwar movement, and pique at the decision of McNamara's host, the Institute of Politics, to shield him from large numbers of students...
Such programs will provide intellectuals, here and on other campuses, with an opportunity to alter public opinion across the country. Articulate and knowledgeable, these students and professors could prove the most articulate and effective spokesmen against...