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...government and the Viet Cong are expected to take part-though Johnson emphasized that the Communists' participation "in no way involves" U.S. recognition of the Viet Cong's political representatives. Johnson gave no hint of what, if any, concessions Hanoi offered. Presumably there was some quid pro quo, but in order to spare Hanoi embarrassment among its allies, most notably Peking, the U.S. may keep the specific terms secret as long as possible. Still, the President made it clear that if North Viet Nam takes advantage of the pause-such as massive violation of the Demilitarized Zone...
Cleaver gathers together the problems of individuals in our society, the conflicts of black and white, and the struggles of nationalism and the status quo. Most important, however, he shows their dependence on each other and shows that we all--black and white, young and old--are tied together in a period of great and serious change...
...Chandler, veteran teacher of P.S. 178. "It will work. In spite of everything that people are doing to crush this beautiful thing. We have been floating around in this sea of negativism for too long. People don't have the courage to face the fact that the status quo just hasn't worked. Instead, they get themselves frightened by such ideas as Black Power and militancy. It's not that at all. It is just a simple matter of accountability...
...entitled Nine Men in Black Who Think White, a blunt attack on the U.S. Supreme Court that appeared in the New York Times Sunday Magazine. These days, the court is criticized most often as excessively libertarian; Steel took an opposite tack. He charged the court with maintaining the status quo and striking down only "overtly obnoxious" discrimination...
...Dunlop Committee recommended freezing the status quo--allowing only assistant professors with three years experience voting rights, but Ford said the CEP feared that action "would look like we were giving them something with one hand and taking it away with the other...