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...Administration about to take over, Lee decided to abide the insult long enough to test the new President's response. It was straightforward and unequivocal: no under-the-table money at all, economic assistance only on its merits-and only if it was clearly not a quid pro quo for the spy's release. Secretary of State Rusk sent Lee an apology, and Lee let the agent go without fanfare...
pared for a long and uphill struggle," Cheong declared, adding that the bombings of North Vietnam "will have to continue until they are discussed with Hanol." He suggested "some sort of quid pro quo" be arranged, with America calling a halt to the bombings if North Vietnamese regulars return to the North...
Admitting that "I can't think of anything in modern times that has caused more anxiety than the BRA," Lally declared: "Urban renewal calls for the sacrifice of poor people and it is not possible to work with the poor without disturbing their status quo, but in the long run it does the most good for the people who need the attention...
...predominantly Negro congregation met in Cambridge's Western Ave. Baptist Church, two days after the funeral of Malcolm X. The man they mourned was in his own way more of a threat to our social status quo than Malcolm. His name was James Lee Jackson, a black man, a little man, dead--a casualty of the Selma, Alabama civil rights demonstrations. The main speaker at the service was a white man named Bob Zellner. Zellner is a native Southerner who joined the civil rights movement in 1960. He is universally respected...
Inaction, Sartre would point out, is tantamount to acceptance of the status quo. Sartre does not choose Communism because he always grees with Moscow. In fact, he has frequently criticized Moscow. He chooses Communism as Castro chooses it, because to govern is to choose, and this seems the better of two unpleasant alternatives...