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the wounds had not been healed and although there were many

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bitter memories of excesses committed in the name of military

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necessity, of a great city living under the shadow of

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the guns on Federal Hill, and of soldiers at the polls

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supervising the elections , nevertheless , the armed conflict

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had ended and we were looking forward hopefully to a future

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of peace and quiet, liberty and contentment, and economic

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and cultural rehabilitation and progress.

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Today we are not at the end of a period of

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conflict. We are in the midst of it. We live not only in

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a period of great social unrest amidst all the stresses and

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strains produced by such unrest, but in a period in which

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conflict and strife are again prevalent. We are no longer

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a border state caught between the opposing forces of the

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North and South, but an island in a sea of hatred and violence

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We do not have armies pitted - against armies in mighty

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battles on our soil, but more frightening, -perhaps, we see

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all about us throughout our nation citizen pitted against

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citizen, in scenes of equal violence which seem to erupt

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almost spontaneously and perplex and plague us all. We

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grope blindly for solutions to problems which appear to