This is, in any case, inappropriate when innocent human lives are at stake.

I will not presume to judge the root causes, or rights and wrongs as between Cypriots of the two communities.

I want you to report these targets to me promptly.

As soon as these figures reach you, I want you personally to reexamine your employment situation and to establish new end-of-year targets below these maximums.

I will review them personally.

Like President Kennedy I am convinced that in the building of a better world, there is no area more important that Latin America.

We must remember, and we must never forget, that the hopes and the fears of all the years rest with us, as with no other people in all history.

There is a turning toward those things which are true, those things which are profound, and those things which are eternal.

May God bless this land and all who live in it.

He will live on in our hearts, which will be his shrine.

On this occasion x year ago, our beloved President John F. Kennedy reminded us that Christmas is the day when all of us dedicate our thoughts to others, when we are all reminded that mercy and compassion are the really enduring virtues, when all of us show, by small deeds and by large, that it is more blessed to give than to receive.