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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...current rage) but fails to convey the spirit and depth of commitment involved in the civil rights struggle. I wish too that they had placed more emphasis on the forces behind the rise of Negro extremism and the effect of permanent poverty, on the Negro's response to the compound problem of discrimination and unemployment. Two other omissions mar the book, the failure to adequately discuss the difference between the Puerto Rican's experience and that of earlier immigrant groups, and the neglect of the Catholic attitude toward birth control that limits the effectiveness of welfare programs...
Fortnight ago, the day before he was scheduled to return to Moscow, Nosenko told colleagues he was going off for lunch at a downtown restaurant. When he failed to return next morning, frantic Soviet officials ordered all the remaining Russians at the hotel into a delegation compound and stripped Nosenko's room of all his personal effects. They seemed particularly agitated when they could not find his valise. At last, the Russians called in the Swiss police. In vain, the cops checked Switzerland's hospitals, morgues, hotels, railroad stations, airports and border outposts. Nosenko had totally vanished...
...intelligence reported Viet Cong assassination agents slipping into the capital, with U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge as a prime target. In a bold attack on a U.S. military compound, a four-man Red guerrilla squad slipped by night into a barracks in central Viet Nam occupied by 130 American advisers, bombed and burned a billet, wounding a captain. A Kansas corporal opened fire and killed two of the intruders...
...little men" who followed orders. One of the major defendants, Robert Mulka, 68, a prosperous Hamburg importer who was assistant commandant of Auschwitz, declared that he "knew nothing, saw nothing, heard nothing" about mass extermination. Why, swore Mulka, he had never even set foot inside the vast prisoners' compound...
Breaking the Ice. The patriarchal palace is a dusty little compound near the lumberyards of old Stamboul, across the Golden Horn from modern Istanbul. There, Athenagoras rises at 7 for prayer, spends most of his days keeping up with a vast worldwide correspondence and seeing visitors, to whom he offers a tidbit of sickly sweet Turkish jam. Eager to prod Orthodoxy into a dialogue with other churches, Athenagoras looked forward to his meeting with the Pope. "The ice has been broken," said Athenagoras. "Soon a new era will begin in the history of Christendom...