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...Richard Mayne, one of Britain's most eloquent Europeanists, then "we have to rethink the idea of Europe." Italy's Spinelli emphasizes the crucial role of the men at the top. Depending on the perceptions of its leaders, he believes, Europe could just as easily return to crude nationalism, or seek unity and security in some other "system of vaster and more diverse dimensions...
...would go even further. The censorship of art is, in practical terms, more important than the censorship of trash. If a work is attractive and adept, it has more chance of doing serious social damage than a work which is crude and exploitive. My own favorite candidate for total suppression, of all the films I have seen or heard of, is not a "porno" film, but a work of considerable artistic merit--Rosemary's Baby. This film, which made real a universe in which the power and ultimate triumph of evil are inevitable, did more than any five other factors...
...hardly expected from The Crimson anything better than Dun Swanson's crude hatchet job on my book, Behind The Berlin Wall. But minimal standards of journalistic honesty might at least have led Swanson to mention some of the book's major themes and findings, so the reader could judge for himself whether, as he argues, the Left should refrain from citicizing regimes like the East German one too loudly...
Explained Frank A. Sieverts, a State Department expert on P.O.W. affairs who talked to the prisoners at Clark Air Base: "After two or three years, the cycle of illness and health stopped alternating and stabilized at a somewhat lower life-supporting plateau." Treatment for injuries was frequently crude -sometimes wounds were lanced with rusty nails. Said one prisoner from the South: "This stuff about not being able to live without sex is nonsense. What I dreamed about was food and medicine...
...cost. Under an agreement between 16 Western oil companies and six Persian Gulf nations, prices are automatically raised to compensate for any significant changes in dollar values. Because of devaluation, the companies, beginning April 1, will pay $730 million more a year in taxes and royalties for Middle Eastern crude. The increase will force price boosts on both heating oil and gasoline for American consumers. Because oil supplies are tight worldwide, the companies' alternative is not to turn to other sources, but to let some households shiver...