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...committed and receiving the bogus absolution of ex post facto justice dispensed with casuistry and comfort in the theater. No one can bring the 6,000,000 Jews of Europe back to life; no one can restore dead Indians to their buffalo hunting grounds; no one can dis-invent the atomic bomb...
...most frequent interracial alliances in volved ghetto blacks and suburban whites. Many of these were false to the extent that the wealthier whites were per forming acts of noblesse oblige that infuriated the white lower middle class and often the blacks themselves. Now the Philadelphia Antipoverty Action Committee has dis covered that black-white alliances are possible where racial neighborhoods adjoin and share common dangers and demands. Thus, black and white parents last year formed a community-action committee that preserved GET SET, a pre school program that both groups felt their children urgently needed...
...forms of political protest are now strictly forbidden in Czechoslovakia, but the people still find ways to express their sentiments. In a cacophony of defiance, workers in some Prague factories last week tootled the plant whistles at odd hours as a gesture of their dis pleasure with the regime's repressive ac tions. Leaflets were surreptitiously dis tributed in Prague calling for non-violent demonstrations on August 21, the first anniversary of the Soviet invasion...
...children through the ages are yielding to preventive vaccines - first smallpox, then diphtheria, whooping cough, polio, and most recently, measles. Last week the U.S. Government approved a vaccine that will benefit no child already born, but is expected to save hundreds of thousands of unborn infants from death or dis abling malformations in the womb. It is a vaccine to protect against German measles, folk-named "three-day measles" and technically rubella. The first ship ments were on their way to doctors with in hours of the licensing announcement...
...world by saying that Russia is not only defending its Far Eastern borders but also holding back the Maoist yellow peril that threatens humanity. For the Russians, who have so long regarded themselves as the providers of aid and arms to other Communist countries, the response has been deeply dis appointing. Requests for token military units or even observers to come to Siberia to join the Red Army in its vigil on the long, lonely border have reportedly been refused. No other Communists want to be caught in the thrashings of the two giants...