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...Blaming the raids on both ex-Premier Thanh and Thailand, Sihanouk jailed scores of the ex-Premier's known friends and supporters and opened up with mortars and machine guns on the small Thai frontier village of Haadlek. "We have been armed, morally and militarily," Sihanouk warned, "to confront at all times and victoriously the attacks from these despicable mercenaries. We will show no mercy." Thailand denied the attacks, calling Cambodia's own action an attempt to "provoke us into an unwise incident. We will not be drawn into any foolish move...
...There are no problems that the church ought to stay out of," he said Monday. "There can be no distinction between the sacred and the secular terms of the problems that confront the church today...
Taking the Plunge. If Lyndon Johnson is to contend successfully with the many problems that confront him, his first task is to regain full mastery of the levers of power and the instruments of opinion making that lie at his disposal as President. His long absence from the White House has removed him from the mainstream, and this week's State of the Union address-usually a President's most important in any given year-will indicate how ready he is to plunge back in. When he is fully ready, his first and most important order of business...
...observation by a Viet Nam veteran in a letter home: "You can't run away from Viet Nam, because it will follow wherever you go." While President Johnson insists that the U.S. will remain there as long as Saigon's sovereignty is threatened, the war will inevitably confront him with profound problems at home...
This new look in newspapers is not unique to Phoenix. Papers across the U.S. are no longer reacting to issues in quite so ideological a way; instead, they confront each issue on its own merits...