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...Sunday, July 14 The Twentieth Century (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). Part 1 of "Franco's Spain." Assessment of his regime by Franco, government spokesmen and members of the opposition. Repeat...
Viansson-Ponté estimates that only 1,500 Frenchmen qualify as real Gaullists, has selected 116 of these for inclusion in his directory. Even in apostasy, he says, the Gaullist "link is indestructible. Excluded, exiled, in rebellion, Jacques Soustelle remains a member of the circle." But ironically, such ranking spokesmen for present-day Gaullist policy as Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville and Information Minister Alain Peyrefitte are excluded for lacking the proper credentials...
...town leaders recognize NAACP members as the true spokesmen of the Negro community. Instead they refer to a wealthier class of local Negroes: men who, by slightly superior education, have long been leaders in their isolated world. These people, of course, have as much to lose by integration as the most conservative white man. They band together with white leaders to keep segregation alive...
Shortly before, President Kennedy had received from Premier Khrushchev a message replying to a joint U.S.-British appeal to get the stalled nuclear test ban negotiations moving again. To head off the obvious inference that Khrushchev's message prompted the U.S. decision to cancel the Nevada tests, Administration spokesmen hastened to assure newsmen that the events were unconnected. "Just a coincidence," said one high official. Khrushchev's letter, according to New Frontiersmen, "left the test ban issue right where it was-on dead center...
...civil community are entitled. In return, they pledge themselves, as members of a learned profession and as responsible citizens, "at all times (to) be accurate, (to) exercise appropriate restraint, (to) show respect for the opinion of others," and to make every effort to indicate that they are not institutional spokesmen. Professors willingly recognize that "their special position in the community imposes special obligations." However, it would be exceedingly unfortunate if those "special obligations" were used by powerful segments of the public to deprive professors of their rights as citizens to speak forthrightly on all issues of public concern...