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Show 'Darkness at Noon' I wept when the news of the death of the President broke, feeling feel-ing that all 'True Americanism' passed away with him. My uncon-trolable uncon-trolable emotion was due to the respect and regard I had for him as a man who transcended the vices in leadership. In domestic policy, a Lincoln, and in the international scene, a Roosevelt, Roose-velt, a man is lost who embodied and represented 'True Americanism American-ism at its best.' This nation indeed in-deed lost a leader and the world lost an honest, outstanding citizen. citi-zen. It is a grave fact that such a man should die so young in the wake of 'truism' in the international internation-al world, when nations looked on the U.S. and saw President Kennedy Ken-nedy in action as the champion of Freedom. Let us hope that the 'darkness at noon' that occured on 22 November, Novem-ber, 1963, will not cause a redress in undue extremism and undue bitterness bit-terness against those who are proponents pro-ponents of democratic ideals. Teshome H. Gabriel Chronicle Political Editor |