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Ramparts had been all but bankrupt from the moment it was converted in 1962 from a mediocre Catholic literary quarterly into a rampaging crusader for leftist causes. It employed highly emotional writing and skilled promotion techniques to magnify its occasional and not really fresh revelations-including covert CIA funding of the National Student Association and military-financed secret research at universities. Circulation rose to a high of about 225,000. It has been losing some $20,000 an issue, partly because of its flashy, full-color format (says Hinckle: "I hate butcher paper"). A contributing reason was the fact that...
...long way toward "normalizing" Czechoslovakia by rescinding most of the personal and political freedoms that had been granted during the heady liberal regime of Alexander Dubček. In fact, the plucky Czechoslovaks were using their wits and will to walk a shaky tightwire between overt compliance and covert resistance to Russia's goals. Last week, as Soviet soldiers settled into winter quarters outside Prague and other cities for what is likely to be a long occupation, it was plain that the Kremlin considered Czechoslovakia far from normalized-and was growing dangerously impatient with the country's noncooperative...
DOMESTIC confrontations of this kind in the East European countries, despite their covert political nature, might not have led to the present tensions in the area if it had not been for one other factor: Liberalization also seems to entail a heavy dose of Nationalism--which in East Europe means independence from the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union had come to be closely identified with the repressive Stalinist regimes of the past. The memory of the blatant economic exploitation carried out by the Soviet Union in the early 50's contributes to the bitterness felt by today's liberal reformers...
...outcome of the talks that the South Vietnamese government absolutely refuses to countenance is a coalition with the Communists. Truong Dinh Dzu, the presidential runner-up in last year's elections, was arrested last week for openly advocating coalition. Nonetheless, many members of the government have long maintained covert contacts with the Viet Cong and its political arm, the National Liberation Front, which is directed by Nguyen Huu Tho, a onetime Saigon lawyer who runs the front from a jungle redoubt. In many cases, the contacts are the residue of common cause in arms against the French more than...
Clandestine Laotian and South Viet namese commando teams led by U.S. Green Berets have stepped up the number of their covert forays into Laos. But the bulk of the U.S. presence in Laos, open and covert, is aimed at maintaining the uneasy balance of forces in Laos. To that end, the U.S. provides most of the money for the government's budget, and enough military aid to keep the 70,000-man Laotian forces equipped to fight...