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...fifth: the freedom to demand and expect to enjoy freedom. For unless racial discrimination, economic segregation, political exploitation and social humiliation were abolished, we were still slaves, still eliminated from the America that called itself free. For Black people to enjoy full citizenship in America, this country had to abandon one of its most traditional licenses; it had to turn from one of its most blatant and continuing sins--the historic policy of neglecting the very principles on which it was founded...
...contain spilled oil and vacuum cleaners that suck it off the surface may work fairly well in the quiet waters of harbors or slow-flowing rivers. But the open ocean poses all but insuperable problems. Coast Guardsmen lost $200,000 worth of equipment when stormy seas forced them to abandon attempts to take off the Argo Merchant's cargo. The pounding waves rendered booms useless and stymied the Coast Guard's attempts to set the oil on fire...
...thought, and told him so, that he was too small to play Ivy League football. An on-again, off-again freshman season, a sophomore year spent mostly on the bench, and a painful and continually aggravated knee injury, would doubtless have been enough to convince almost anyone else to abandon their hopes for football stardom. But that wouldn't have been in character for Andy Puopolo. And it was this dedication, this will to persevere, and a quiet, unassuming, but ever-present sense of confidence in himself, which enabled him to emerge this year, not only as a starter...
...German invasion, Chonkin's idyl continues. His unit has shipped out and forgotten him. But a district policeman suspects that Chonkin may be a Nazi spy-perhaps even a White Russian general about to lead a counterrevolution. When a detail is sent to arrest him, Chonkin refuses to abandon his post. Uproarious chaos, slapstick and barnyard antics ensue...
...CHINESE TIES: "We could do more to upgrade the U.S.-Chinese relationship to minimize the possibility of a swing in China toward greater normalization with the Soviet Union. [But] I don't think the U.S. can simply abandon the security treaty with Taiwan ... The U.S. cannot be a viable guarantor of anyone's existence if we welsh on a commitment to maintain the survival of a particular party...