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...School, supported Bundy's position. He stated that Castro has been absolutely "inaccessible" to all attempts at negotiation, and that it has been "impossible to divide Castro and his lettlst advisors." For these reasons, both Bundy and Barnes objected to the implication in the Liberal Union's document that the fault lies entirely with the U.S. in the failure of negotiations between the two governments...
...articulated dissent embodied itself in a manifesto "On the Right to Refuse Service in the Algerian War," which was issued on September 1. The document signed by Jean-Paul Sartre, Simon de Beauvoir, Andre Breton, Simone Signore and 117 other French artists and intellectuals was essentially a refutation of responsibility for the excesses of the repressive French army. "French militarism, fifteen years after the destruction of Hitlerism, has restored torture," declared the signers. "What is the meaning of good citizenship," they asked, "when it is defined as shameful submission...
...million in local and state taxes-and rumbled that it might move elsewhere. When Ford located a new Falcon plant in Ohio, Williams put on his straightest face and complained that the company was depriving Michiganders of jobs. This year the Republicans' most effective campaign document is a list of 40 key companies-from ACF Industries to Philco-that have left Michigan. In the past decade, the number of manufacturing jobs in Michigan dropped from 1,070,000 to 983,000. At the same time, manufacturing employment went up 4.9% in Ohio, 7.5% in Wisconsin...
...Russians were financing some factions of the 20,000-man Argentine-based exile army. Army Commander General Carlos Toranzo Montero ordered a halt in aid and comfort to them. In an about-face, the Argentine army snatched back guns and planes from guerrillas, and last week Argentina signed a document pledging "harmonious relations in border areas...
Galbraith's The Liberal Hour, with which I began this piece and from which I have wandered a good deal, is a far better book than Conscience of a Conservative and Coming Political Breakthrough. It is not a campaign document, nor even necessarily an election-year product, and thus does not suffer from the terrible solemnity of the other two works. The Liberal Hour is a brief, entertaining collection of lectures and writings on a fairly wide variety of subjects; only one section (containing four selections) touches directly on important political topics...