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Fret Aloud. At Moscow's behest, the government is attempting to justify the invasion by "documenting" the existence of an anti-socialist conspiracy last year. The party daily Rudé Právo, for example, last week quoted one speaker at a meeting of regional Communist district chiefs held in May 1968 as warning: "Right-wing opposition forces with varying degrees of anti-Communist and anti-socialist orientation are beginning to emerge on the political scene." The newspaper said that the speaker, who also noted that the Russians were justifiably worried about this trend, was none other than Alexander...
Under the new plan, tax rules would be relaxed in a couple of areas. The 30% limit on the amount of charitable contributions an individual can deduct from his income in most circumstances would go up to 50%. Tax deductions for moving at the behest of an employer would be substantially liberalized, permitting such costs as house hunting, temporary lodging or breaking a lease to be written off up to a limit of $2,500 per move...
...only was Ethel the right girl to draw the shy Bobby out of his shell, but also she had the proper temperament and family background to suit the tightly knit, boisterous and opinionated Kennedy circle. At Bobby's behest, Ethel threw herself with abandon into older brother Jack's 1946 campaign for a House seat from Massachusetts. The year after her graduation from Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart in 1949, Ethel and Bobby?then a law student at the University of Virginia?were married in Greenwich, with Representative John F. Kennedy (D., Mass.) as best...
...West Side, gangs of black teenagers surged out of schoolyards on the anniversary eve to attack cars, loot stores and hurl bricks at policemen. It looked like the prelude to a repetition of last April's anarchy. But Mayor Richard Daley moved swiftly, and, at his behest, Governor Richard Ogilvie had 5,000 National Guardsmen in the Chicago area by midafternoon. By nightfall, as Jeeps loaded with armed guardsmen crisscrossed the West Side, the city resembled a ghost town. Altogether, 90 persons were hurt, most of them only slightly, and 249 arrested...
...disillusioned workers, students and intellectuals. An unrepentant liberal, Smrkovský lost his post as president of the National Assembly when that body was abolished to make way for the new legislature. In the new system, he temporarily holds the equivalent post of president of the federal parliament. At the behest of the Russians, the realists have started a campaign to take that post away from Smrkovský. The workers, including the 900,000 members of the metalworkers' union, have pledged to go out on strike if Smrkovský is not given the job-and thousands of students have made...