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PHOTOGRAPHER Priya Ramrakha, whose pictures have illustrated many of TIME's stories- most recently those about the Nigerian civil war and the occupation of Czechoslovakia- was anxious to get out of Africa. He was a British citizen born of Indian parents, and he no longer felt wholly welcome in his native Kenya, which lately has turned against people of Asian origin. More important, he was determined to demonstrate that his camera could capture subjects more subtle than the violence he had been covering. But before he moved on, he wanted to finish one more assignment for TIME: another look...
...20th century is not East v. West, Communism v. the Free World, Democracy v. enslavement, "people's paradise" v. "capitalist imperialism," but the intelligentsia and oppressed against the worldwide Establishment, liberty and freedom v. suppression. The differences between the Soviet's suppression of literature and "normalization" of Czechoslovakia, Peking's Cultural Revolution, and the Wallace-Nixon-Daley concept of law and order are very slight. Their purposes are the same: the suppression of dissent and meaningful dialogue, and the expunging of opposition...
...Referring to your article "A Severe Case of Angst in Europe" [Oct. 4]. I should like to state that the events in neighboring Czechoslovakia and particularly the presence of Warsaw Pact troops in that country have understandably received utmost attention by the Austrian government. But I would like to make it absolutely clear that at no instance and from no quarter whatsoever any threats have been uttered against Austria which would have justified fears as to an eventual violation of Austrian neutrality. The measures taken by the Austrian government during the present crisis were primarily designed to maintain order...
...VIETNAM AND END THE OCCUPATION OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA, Was passing out handbills. He, too, was collared by police and the two protesters were taken off for interrogation...
...essentials of U.N. diplomacy remain, as Adlai Stevenson once defined them, "protocol, alcohol and Geritol," the 23rd session will likely provide more than usual amounts of vitriol. Czechoslovakia and Viet Nam offer abundant fuel for debate, even though both are absent from the 99-item agenda. But they are effectively out of the U.N.'s scope. Czechoslovakia's new representative, Zdenek Cernik, spread the word that an Assembly debate would be most unhelpful to Prague, and the Russians, who doubtless dictated Cernik's position, vociferously agreed...