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Fear and deep sullen hatred are everywhere evident among Bengalis. Few will talk to reporters in public, but letters telling of atrocities and destroyed villages are stuck in journalists' mailboxes at Dacca's Hotel Intercontinental. In the privacy of his home one night, a senior Bengali bureaucrat declared: "This will be a bitter, protracted struggle, maybe worse than Viet Nam. But we will...
...flow of information to press and public, only to turn it back on at convenient moments or let it dribble out in calculated leaks. The disclosure of the Pentagon papers serves as a reminder of how much more information-hundreds of millions of pages-remains classified. A Washington bureaucrat can stamp as secret virtually anything he wants...
Easy Skill. Classifying keeps many an otherwise idle bureaucrat occupied. Busiest of all are Defense Department employees who bring, as might be expected, a rare spit and polish to the job. More than 300 Defense officials, says Florence, have been given "original" authority to classify documents; hundreds of thousands of others have what is termed "derivative" power to classify. A virtual army marches through the Pentagon shooting down reams of innocent documents-truly a case of documental genocide. "In the past several years," says ex-classifier Florence, "I have not heard one person in the Department of Defense say that...
...commission inquiring into activities under Dubč that are now considered questionable. Loss of party cards has meant loss of livelihood as well. Teachers have had to become taxi drivers; diplomats, hotel clerks; and intellectuals, gas-station attendants. Even the still popular Dubč is now a minor bureaucrat in the Slovak Ministry of Forests...
...member of the Politburo can be voted out of office by the Central Committee, but for that to happen would require a major upheaval. Nor can anyone predict with certainty who will emerge as the next party boss?or when. Perhaps it will be a now faceless regional bureaucrat or young technocrat whose name today is unfamiliar in the West. More likely, it will be someone who is not yet in his 60s but is already positioned in the upper reaches of the power structure. There are four Soviet politicians who fit this description particularly well. Three are the youngest...