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...preliminary hearing in Miami last week, Christ vehemently maintained his innocence, though he admitted having dined in the hotel that night and having been joined afterward by Sol Meza, a relative by marriage. When the shooting occurred, Christ said, he ran to the dining room from another part of the hotel Despite his protestations, Christ remained in a Miami jail pending another hearing this week...
...Albert Walters had. Funerals like Walters', as William J. Schafer fairly puts it in Brass Bands and New Orleans Jazz, are "public acts, theatrical displays designed not to hide burial as a fearful obscenity but to exhibit it as a community act." And the public's participation afterward is "a celebration of life as much as a recognition of the triumph of death...
Whatever the cause, Brezhnev's condition requires careful husbanding of his energies. Said a Western observer in Prague last week: "Brezhnev pays a price for trips like this. At his age he has to rest for several days afterward to regain his strength." All too obviously, traveling takes its toll on the man who once gloried in boar hunts, flashy Western automobiles, good food and drink and, not least, the sociable company of attractive women...
...suburb of Vitry-sur-Seine launched a Christmas Eve attack on a housing complex where some 300 immigrant workers from Mali had just been installed. The Communists shouted threats and insults, severed electrical, telephone, water and heating lines, and rammed the building with a bulldozer. In sanctioning the outrage afterward, Marchais declared, "We do not want a new Harlem or a new Soweto in the Paris suburbs." By so nakedly exploiting the immigrant issue, Marchais obviously hoped to increase the Communist vote among lower-class suburbanites. But other leftists put a balder tag on the Communist tactics: "Red fascism...
...support will be there," he reassured them. Another man complained that they had been promised technical advisers, but only one had shown up in the beginning for a few days and then had left. Could someone come and tour all the farms? Ehrlich sidestepped the question, but said privately afterward, "They want a father figure; that is the system they are used to. In many cases, they know more about agronomy than any technician...