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...only pals in Europe-the Communists of Premier Enver Hoxha's Albania. In an interview on French television, taped while Chou was in Morocco, he came up with what, for him, was a startling thought: war between East and West is not inevitable. The remark was strictly for capitalist consumption, of course; in Albania, Chou found genuine enthusiasm for his usual militant opposition to the whole idea of Communist coexistence with the West...
...answer to a student's question, the journalist Kuhtarev said that the "capitalist newspaper New York Times is not available in Russia, and will be sold there only when it begins to report objectively about our system." When asked if he believes in freedom of the press, Kuhtarev noted that the New York Times is a very thick newspaper and "would require special airplanes to bring it to us." After a member of the audience suggested the international edition of the Times, printed on ten pages of thin paper, the Russian said he could not answer this question...
...rhinos have one or two horns, were they African or Asian? The town logician (J. Frank Lucas) confuses the people with his circuitous syllogisms, and M. Botard (Robert Gaus) insists that the rhinos couldn't possibly exist--or if they do, they must be stooges in a capitalist plot...
...agree with you. If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I will throw a couple of porcupines under you." At that point last week, with the Chairman of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics replying to a particularly pointed question put to him by an American capitalist, TIME found itself making as well as reporting news...
...investigation was launched to see if there had been negligence at the mine, and the East German radio even managed to find a propaganda issue-capitalist callousness. Meanwhile, the rescue work continued. The drill had to work slowly because of the danger of a cave-in, but eventually and luckily pierced the only spot in the gallery's roof that was solid rock. Just 103 hours after the eleven were heard from, the first of the miners emerged from the "rescue bomb," a sort of torpedo-shaped elevator that had been lowered into the new shaft with two volunteer...