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Solution to last week’s puzzle: 1) take the Panama Canal and rename it Kennedy Canal; 2) send Henry Cabot Lodge to Panama with instructions to assassinate-the government; 3) give Panama to Mme. Nhu as a consolation prize; 4) accuse all critics of endangering the peace.

Everyone was in Atlanta last week. SNCC, the Ku Klux Klan, Dick Gregory, Ralph McGill, the UN. The UN group, a sub-commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, was invited to see how Atlanta conducts itself in these matters. If citizens of Atlanta want to impress, or involve, the UN with their racial progress, that, we suppose, is their business, up to a point at any rate. But it was not business as usual last weekend. The Ku Klux Klan was out walking the streets. SNCC members lay down in them. Dick Gregory got himself jailed several times. Ralph McGill, the Voice of Moderation, strove to be heard above the din. On departing, the UN mission—among its members an Egyptian, an Indian and a Russian—announced themselves “favorably impressed,” despite all the grandstanding. Atlanta mopped its brow, but ours begins to sweat, thinking about Katanga.

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Solution to last week’s puzzle: 1) take the Panama Canal and rename it Kennedy Canal; 2) send Henry Cabot Lodge to Panama with instructions to assassinate-the government; 3) give Panama to Mme. Nhu as a consolation prize; 4) accuse all critics of endangering the peace.

Everyone was in Atlanta last week. SNCC, the Ku Klux Klan, Dick Gregory, Ralph McGill, the UN. The UN group, a sub-commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, was invited to see how Atlanta conducts itself in these matters. If citizens of Atlanta want to impress, or involve, the UN with their racial progress, that, we suppose, is their business, up to a point at any rate. But it was not business as usual last weekend. The Ku Klux Klan was out walking the streets. SNCC members lay down in them. Dick Gregory got himself jailed several times. Ralph McGill, the Voice of Moderation, strove to be heard above the din. On departing, the UN mission—among its members an Egyptian, an Indian and a Russian—announced themselves “favorably impressed,” despite all the grandstanding. Atlanta mopped its brow, but ours begins to sweat, thinking about Katanga.