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When American officials heard this, however, they chose to sit on the proposal. Then, on November 2, in an attempt to regain the initiative, Ambassador Arthur J. Goldberg told Congress that the United States would vote for an invitation to the Vietcong to appear before a meeting of the Security Council. Goldberg's speech was billed as yet another major U.S. diplomatic concession to the enemy. It sought to prove once again that the United States is truly anxious to reach a peace settlement, and that its concerted efforts have failed only because of the intransigence of the North Vietnamese...
...future reversion to Japan. This prospect has been clouded by the war, since Okinawa is America's major Western Pacific base, and a key way station for heavy bombers and troops headed for Viet Nam. The sooner the war in South east Asia ends, the sooner Japan will regain administrative control of Okinawa and the Ryukyu chain of which it is a part. With that in mind, perhaps, Sato offered last week to serve as best he could as a "third party" in seeking a negotiated...
Peking has just launched a new campaign in which the army will step in and help China's political cadres, most of whom were condemned and ostracized as revisionists during the Cultural Revolution, to regain the positions from which they were ousted. Since these officials ordinarily have personal contacts with the people and carry out orders from the top, their absence has rendered chaotic the day-to-day administration of public affairs. The army's new task, said Peking's People's Daily, is to help them to "educate and emancipate themselves...
...walk away, sad but not surprised. Somehow, my friend's arrest doesn't seem unexpected. This is the tragic and beautiful land of Kazantzakis' Freedom or Death. Each generation has to offer its own sacrifice to regain the same, always incomplete, freedom of its fathers...
...more open one than the strains that are showing in American society by the withdrawal of trust by so many individuals and groups. Clearly it is the task of those concerned with the health of American society to retain that large and still preponderant trust that remains, and to regain that which has been lost. It will not be easy, if only for the reason that the very success of American society so far is producing an ever larger proportion of persons who are trained to be skeptical, enquiring, and demanding of a great deal of information before they give...