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...others neither angels nor devils--neither heroes nor blackguards; a concept, finally, which accepts it as our purpose not to abolish all violence and injustice from the workings of international society but to confine those inevitable concommitants of the human predicament to levels of intensity that do not threaten the very existence of civilization...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kennan Attacks Asian Containment As a 'National Inadvertance' Urges Rational, Deliberate Policy | 4/24/1967 | See Source »

...Svetlana Stalina to stay in India. If it can show strength in the contest for the presidency, which will be decided by an electoral college of state and national legislators on May 6, the opposition might lure more Congress members of Parliament over to its side and perhaps even threaten the tenure of Mrs. Gandhi's Cabinet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: Opposition Maneuvers | 4/21/1967 | See Source »

...base among these people. We feel now, however that while opportunities to do this kind of organizing still exist (and may, at the moment even be increasing), both the probable course of the war and the low level of personal commitment in the anti-war protest movement seriously threaten the growth of the kinds of political activity that will be crucial in the next year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The 'Boston Memo': Civil Disobedience As Part of a New Anti-War Movement | 4/21/1967 | See Source »

...disputes continue, Congress is likely to hear many more demands for tightened federal control over strikes that threaten the nation's economy and war effort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Labor: The Guns of April | 4/14/1967 | See Source »

...many South Texas cities, by a coalition of Anglos and Latinos; the latter are often regarded as Tios Tomases (Uncle Toms) by the more dissatisfied Latins. Those who rule Laredo have watched the poverty fight here closely and with some misgivings, fearing political and economic change that could threaten their power...

Author: By William C. Bryson, | Title: When a Poverty Program Meets a Machine Or, What Happened to VISTA in Laredo | 4/14/1967 | See Source »

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