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Apart from this relatively minor ambiguity, the treaty is direct enough. Underground testing is specifically excluded because of Russian insistence that adequate on-site inspection would be a guise for espionage. A clause obviously aimed at France and Red China pledges the parties to "refrain from causing, encouraging or in any way participating in the carrying out of any nuclear weapons test whatever." An escape clause permits the signers to renounce the agreement unilaterally upon three months' advance notice any time "extraordinary events . . . have jeopardized the supreme interests of its country." The treaty invites any and all nations...
...warns that schools must "take positive action to bring Negro children into the mainstream of American cultural activity." And in California, the state supreme court in June came close to outlawing de facto segregation. Where it exists, ruled the court, "it is not enough for a school board to refrain from affirmative discriminatory conduct." No exact racial ratio is required, but schools must take "corrective measures...
...highly hypocritical gesture. If the tobacco men really believe smoking is a cause of cancer they should admit it, stop advertising, and probably stop producing cigarettes. If they are genuinely not persuaded by current evidence, then the suspension of advertising is bad business. Why should the companies voluntarily refrain from recruiting college smokers if there is no health hazard involved...
...that integration will come "through evolution rather than revolution." One might answer that the hiring of a few Negro sales-girls and floor-sweepers in white-owned shops hardly constitutes a revolution, but to say such things is to talk to oneself. Reason is no answer to the constant refrain: "we don't want trouble...
...pace. The events in Birmingham make it clear that the President's must take political risks of a similar magnitude. He must make a major public address, on television or before Congress, identifying his position with King's. At the very least, he should demand that Birmingham's police refrain from interfering with the Negro demonstrators. He should make clear his belief that such interference is only designed to prevent the Negroes from securing their constitutional rights...