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...Just as promptly, the Senate reopened a vigorous debate. One of the most vociferous opponents is a Democrat who is frequently sympathetic to Administration causes. But North Carolina's Sam J. Ervin Jr. has long been convinced that much of the measure is "as full of unconstitutional, unjust and unwise provisions as a mangy hound dog is full of fleas." Meanwhile the governing board of the American Bar Association, after a special meeting in Chicago, expressed reservations about parts of a separate bill aimed at subduing the organized underworld. Originally devised by another Democrat, Arkansas's John McClellan...
AFTER a military coup brought Juan Velasco Alvarado to power in Peru 21 months ago, United States relations with that country almost degenerated into a cold war. Angered by what Peruvians called the "unjust enrichment" of the International Petroleum Co., Velasco seized the company's oilfields. Subsequently, Peru also took over U.S.-owned sugar lands. Only intervention by Richard Nixon stayed U.S. retaliation under the Hickenlooper Amendment, which would have imposed economic sanctions on Peru. Even so, the diplomatic climate was markedly frigid, and Peru went unabashedly seeking Russia's aid to play against its traditional ally...
...such mood it is easy to denounce, to find fault, to make unjust accusations, to visit the shortcomings of the world, and of ourselves, on scapegoats- even to light fires or throw stones- for personal relief or for exploitation-easy and totally unworthy. It is more difficult to maintain a realistic sense of human limitation, to refuse to become frustrated and angry; to analyze, to assess, to seek to understand and explain; to determine to be adult and fair; and thus to work patiently to improve while refusing to succumb to either cynicism or hopelessness. It is a long...
...Masters and Johnson's work [May 25] is unfortunately marred by their hypocritical attitude toward women. They claim that it is unjust to deny treatment to single men for their sex problems, yet perfectly proper to deny treatment to single women! Their rationale is that women are taught that for them, sex belongs only in marriage; therefore treatment outside marriage would only complicate their problems...
...college student, and I can't help but weep for my country. I look around and see my brothers gunned down in the streets. Our "leaders" persist in pursuing an unjust war, and yet the Great Silent Majority remains silent. What does it take to make people see that this country is on the brink of disaster...