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...built as a temporary necessity. It is, of course, true that Lenin's ultimate goal was the liberation of humanity, and the creation of an egalitarian Utopia when the state, as envisioned by Marx, had withered away. Yet it was under Lenin that the CHEKA was created-the brutal, terrorizing model for all later Soviet secret-police systems. Many former capitalists were sent to forced labor camps or summarily shot. It was Lenin who started the campaign of harassment against well-to-do peasants, which escalated into open warfare when thousands of detachments of Bolsheviks forcibly requisitioned grain...
...accident. And Thomas Lewis, and artist, surprised to find himself working against the war. And George Mische, who had discovered the difference between words and actions while working for the Alliance for Progress in Central America. And David Darst. like the rest unable to close his eyes to the brutal contradictions he saw around...
...Died. Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard, 46, Cleveland osteopath and central figure in a famed 1954 murder case; of as yet undetermined causes; in Columbus. After a nine-week trial that made headlines around the world, "Dr. Sam" was convicted of the brutal bludgeon murder of his wife Marilyn. Sentenced to life, he served nearly ten years before the Supreme Court upset his conviction in 1966 on the ground that "inherently prejudicial publicity" had prevented him from receiving a fair trial. Retried and acquitted (the murder weapon was never found), Sheppard married a German divorcee who had become...
...bleak as it sounds." he says. "If it were an indivdual thing, it would be, but it isn't. I suppose it gets pretty brutal sometimes, but you just look ahead and say, 'we're going...
Died. Vera Brittain, 75, British pacifist and author; of pneumonia; in Wimbledon, England. A World War I battlefield nurse who lost her brother and fiance in the trenches, Miss Brittain lectured widely and wrote with the passion of experience in her descriptive, often brutal, antiwar writings-most notably Testament of Youth, an account of her conversion to pacifism, which was published...