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...Cairo, where he showed up as a self-appointed delegate to a Pan-African conference. Negroes, he counseled, should demand "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a life for a life." Dealing with the aggressiveness of some Negro youths and the ambitions of some Negro spokesmen, the responsible Negro leaders face serious problems in trying to maintain peace...
...arms and men. Pentagon spokesmen would reveal no hard figures, but confirmed that the U.S. will send "several thousand" more men to Viet Nam over the next six months, most of them "military advisers." This would increase the American military contingent there, currently numbering 16,323, to probably 20,000 or more. Also to be sent are more helicopters, planes, trucks, Jeeps and armored cars-plus at least 300 additional AID technicians, to join the 414 already at work on the Viet Nam economic front...
...passed up the damp beaches, and bedded down instead in city parks and private yards, swarmed through the business area, blocking local traffic and preventing residents from getting to the stores. As a result, the city council banned Freebody Park as a future festival site. Newport appreciates the business, spokesmen announced last week, but wants the folkniks farther out of town...
Most of the Platform Committee hoopla came over the appearances of the presidential candidates and their top supporters. But during its preconvention week the committee, chaired by Wisconsin's Representative Melvin Laird, also took testimony from spokesmen for some 170 organizations, ranging from Americans for Democratic Action to the Izaak Walton League and the American Committee for the Independence of Armenia...
From the start, National Review's polemic spirit, bolstered by its editor's intellectual bravura, was a rallying point for those who subscribed to the Buckley brand of "radical conservatism." In its pages, such conservative spokesmen as Russell (Conservative Mind) Kirk, Cornell University's Clinton Rossiter (Conservatism in America) and James Jackson Kilpatrick Jr., editor of the Richmond News Leader, spelled out the philosophy of their politics. Sometimes even outsiders were permitted aboard, among them Liberal Columnist Murray Kempton and Steve Allen, whose occupation as a TV comedian allows time for the espousal of liberal causes...