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Among his major campaign promises, South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu pledged himself to root out government corruption at the national and provincial levels. Last week Edward Kennedy, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Refugees and a recent visitor to Viet Nam, delivered his own progress report on Thieu's efforts. He painted a grim picture. "The government of South Viet Nam is infested with corruption," Ken nedy told the World Affairs Council of Boston. "It is almost impossible to go to Viet Nam and speak with any can did American or South Vietnamese citi...
...root for the Yankees in the bleachers...
...laws and congressional regulation of interstate commerce. In 1945, after the court had reversed itself, the McCarran-Ferguson Act put all insurance under state supervision. But many Congressmen now believe that the states are flunking the auto-insurance part of their job. A Senate subcommittee has called for a "root and branch" investigation of the entire industry. President Johnson echoed the request in his State of the Union message last week, and Senate hearings are due this spring. One likely result is that the McCarran-Ferguson Act may be amended to impose federal standards on lax state insurance commissions...
...Mozart and Bach, or unfolds the subtle poetry of Schubert. Yet these are not fatal flaws in a conductor of his age. What is important is that he has the right foundation to build on. The visceral spark is primary; the intellect and poetry can come later. Without the root intuition, the other qualities would never fully bloom...
There is a great tradition within the church and synagogue which has always struggled against the conservative and worldly forces that have always been in control. It is a radical tradition, a tradition of urgent impulse to go to the root of the religious dimension of human life. This tradition in modern times has tried to recall us to the best ways of living our lives: the way of love and compassion, the way of justice and respect, the way of facing other people as human beings and not as abstract representatives of something alien and evil. It tries...