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...Rorer's desire to leave the solution of this far-reaching racial problem to mental deficients such as Judge Cox and the Mississippi policemen pictured in The CRIMSON some time ago would be tantamount to putting a lighted stick of dynamite into the hands of a child. I'm afraid that the beginnings of a solution must come from "outsiders", the proverbial "northern agitators." These may be the only people who really do understand the problem and who are therefore more well-equipped to deal with...
Supremacy of the West. Since the new nations must undergo a change of heart before they can progress, writes Sinai, the West is wasting its time with economic aid, which is tantamount to "pouring oil into a motor with ruined cylinders." It is also unrealistic to expect them to be democratic. They are so far behind the West that it takes a strong man to pull them up. Such a leader is likely to be an "exceedingly unattractive specimen," obsessed with the idea of modernization and oblivious to the niceties of diplomacy. And since he has to take so many...
...Congo Reconciliation Commission. Posturing in his orange sport shirt among the mangoes and moonflowers of Jomo's garden, the rebel "Foreign Minister," Thomas Kanza, presented his conditions: hostages would live if Tshombe's Congolese army immediately halted its drive toward the rebel capital. That was tantamount to demanding a legitimate government's surrender to the rebels...
Bookies--friendly, charming, sagacious, useful members of society though they are--rarely have been known for their charity. But this week the sporting gentle men have made two errors in judgement which are tantamount to a gift for every member of America's betting fraternity...
Some of the state's economic distress can be traced to the second great problem facing the next Governor: governmental dishonesty. No one knows for sure the extent of corruption in Massachusetts politics. The present indictments are not tantamount to convictions. But at the very least it is obvious that the state's complex and archaic constitution has created a structure peculiarly susceptible to backroom dealings and factional quarrels. Both the truth and the legend of corruption have aggravated the fiscal crisis. Within the Department of Public Works, proven kickbacks and bribes have in the past wasted valuable tax revenue...