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...civil war-and it could be called no less-promised to be long and bloody. The Bengalis, armed with a few looted guns, spears and often just bamboo staves, were ill-trained for a guerrilla war. But a resistance movement, once organized, might eventually force the West Pakistanis to depart. In a way, the struggle evoked haunting memories of the Nigerian civil war of 1967-70, when the federal regime sought justification in the name of national unity and the Biafrans in the name of self-determination...
...FACT-FINDER would have to weigh profitability above responsibility, the report maintains. Constricting financial pressures force an emphasis on fiscal returns. But more importantly, the report emphasizes that the University cannot "depart from the essentially neutral pursuit of truth...
Bertucelli begins with an excerpt from Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth. It makes the not very unique observation that bourgeois influence does not vanish when the bourgeoisie depart. Fortunately Bertucelli then propels language into gesture and diurnal life into dramatic text. Ramparts of Clay has but one vital incident. A company official travels a great distance to pay the quarriers of the village. The wages are arbitrarily halved; the men go on a sit-down strike. Soldiers are called in, ringing the strikers who cannot join their families a few hundred yards away. Food is denied...
Hyperbole aside, it is estimated that perhaps 300,000 Soviet Jews would leave the country if they could-not to mention any number of non-Jewish Soviet citizens. Few get out, whatever their religion, but Moscow now grudgingly permits about 2,000 Jews to depart annually. Most emigrate to Israel: last week, for example, Physicist Boris Zuckerman, a leading Soviet authority on magnetic resonance, arrived in Jerusalem with his wife and two children. Like those who preceded him, however, Zuckerman may well be in for a few jolts...
Volpin was sentenced to remain in jail until the end of the grand jury term. The jury is scheduled to adjourn on March 31, but the Justice Depart-ment will probably extend the term until December...