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...because of lack of sympathy with "free speech" or "political action," but because, as one put it who wants to teach at the University of Saigon? The net result, I fear, will be a sharp decline in public support for what was the finest state university in America; a rift within the faculty and the departure of some of its best members; and the persistence of suspicion and animosity in a world where suspicion and animosity have no place. I grieve for the University of California; and I grieve for its students, who will be the real losers...
...advocate would increase the risk of thermonuclear disaster. It would give credibility and comfort to the most extreme and most dangerous elements in Communist movements around the globe. It would alienate from our side many sincere and devoted non-Communists. And, misreading the nature of the Sino-Soviet rift, it would spell an end to the hopeful but precarious growth of diversity in the Soviet bloc," the advertisement charged...
...would be logical for the new leaders to initiate exploratory talks with China to see if the ideological rift can be healed. Yet this brings up an obvious point--the new Soviet rulers face precisely the same problems that Khrushchev faced. Making up with Communist China while continuing a policy of detente with the West will not get any easier. But the alternative they face remains the same: that of nuclear disaster...
...rift between Johnson and Connally was short-lived but it was enough to encourage the liberals considerably. They concluded that the President was committed to a liberal program and wanted to see men elected to the Senate who would support that program. They hoped also that he might be remembering the lessons he learned as a protege to Franklin Roosevelt...
...rift between Johnson and Connally was short-lived but it was enough to encourage the liberals considerably. They concluded that the President was committed to a liberal program and wanted to see men elected to the Senate who would support that program. They hoped also that he might be remembering the lessons he learned as a protege to Franklin Roosevelt...