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...Federal Government has executed a crisp about-face on birth control. Until two years ago, Washington hewed to Dwight Eisenhower's blunt 1959 decree on the issue: "That's not our business." But Ike, who has been honorary co-chairman (with Harry Truman) of a private group called Planned Parenthood-World Population for the past two years, has had a change of heart. Only last week, he declared he would "personally support all programs, public or private," that offer birth-control information to families...
...leader. Together, those defections might cause trouble for Sato in next year's national elections. Though the government's Socialist and Communist opposition is badly split as well, a Liberal Democratic rift could endanger the party's 20 years of postwar rule. To blunt the edge of Fujiyama's thrust, Sato last week promised "sweeping Cabinet reforms" of his own as soon as the party election is past...
...Blunted Issue. "We raised more money, put more workers into the field and made more contacts than ever, but we just couldn't overcome factors beyond our control," said Alexander Barkan, C.O.P.E. director. Barkan cited civil rights reaction, Negro apathy in some areas, and Democratic fraternal strife in key states. What Barkan failed to mention-and Meany's investigation will hardly alter-is political history. As time and continuing prosperity erase memories of the great Depression and blunt purely economic issues, the Democrats cannot continue to count on reflex support from rank-and-file union members...
...performance the week before the elections was probably the least attractive of any during his three years in office. He trotted Defense Secretary Robert McNamara out to announce a pre-election draft cut that struck many a voter as a blatantly political move. He issued favorable economic figures to blunt the inflation issue (Pollster Lou Harris reported afterward that it had proved a particularly injurious factor for the Democrats nonetheless). He took a savage swipe at Nixon, thereby giving the "chronic campaigner" a boost that may find its way into the history books. And, in denying that he had been...
...speaker was Ilya Ehrenburg, 75, one of Russia's best-known journalists. Ehrenburg admitted to his interviewer that while he spends more than half an hour a day reading the French newspaper Le Monde, he seldom devotes as much time to any Soviet paper. His explanation was blunt: "The Soviet stories are much more poorly written. Many important events outside as well as inside our country are not even reported. There is a congenital lack of curiosity on the part of the editors and a lack of skill on the part of the reporters...