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...Committee's H. Rap Brown urged Negroes to "wage guerrilla war on the honkie white man," added: "I love violence." Los Angeles Black Nationalist Ron Karenga remarked at the opening session: "Everybody knows Whitey's a devil. The question is what to do about it." Notably absent were the N.A.A.C.P.'s Roy Wilkins, the National Urban League's Whitney Young Jr., and Martin Luther King Jr. Harlem's Adam Clayton Powell, honorary co-chairman of the conference, decided to keep on fishing in Bimini. Conference leaders discouraged delegates from talking to reporters; one white newsman...
Johnson summoned congressional leaders to the White House on Sunday to demand quick passage of the Administration bill still languishing in conference committee. The next day, both houses complied. When Johnson signed the bill into law, photographers were conspicuously absent. Only once before-in 1917-had Congress ordered striking workers back on the job, and the President was not anxious to remind his labor supporters of his role...
...eight captured guerrilla suspects, including a French leftist intellectual named Jules Regis Debray. A close Castro friend, Debray was picked up walking out of an abandoned guerrilla camp three months ago. Since then, he has told half a dozen conflicting stories, some of them implicating Cuba's long-absent revolutionist, Che Guevara, in the Bolivian operation. Last week's version was that Che organized the guerrilla uprising, then left for parts unknown. The Bolivian government's plan to try Debray has raised a storm of protest in France...
...occasions can be read in the titles: A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment; In My Solitary Hours in My Dear Husband His Absence; Before the Birth of One of Her Children. To her husband there are outpourings of diffident ardor: "My head, my heart, mine eyes, nay, more." His business trips rankled...
...underdeveloped countries are occupied by foreign powers. Thus the combination of special political and social conditions and foreign presence which is necessary for successful revolution of this type is virtually absent in today's world. In short, no matter how enthusiastic China may be about them or how much Washington may fear them, successful "wars of national liberation" are much, much less probable than the Administration tends to believe. Since particular local conditions are decisive, failure to defeat the guerrillas in Vietnam will not increase the number of instances in which success is possible. On the other hand, expansion...