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Czechoslovak Party Boss Gustav Husák could hardly have been more emphatic. In response to a question by a visiting French Communist about reprisals against onetime followers of ousted Reformer Alexander Dubček, Husák declared: "There is and will be no trial and no arrest for political activities in 1968 and 1969, and there is and will be no trial or arrest for opinions held. Socialist legality will be scrupulously respected...
...about the current price of McDonald's hamburgers, he brushed it aside with: "I've come directly from the States. I haven't been to Scotland recently." Thereupon, he began flashing small cards at me with the penciled names of Czech dissidents, deeply involved in the Dubéek era. I instantly recognized them, but pretended not to know them at all. After a dozen tries, my friend sneered, "You're not very good at your job, are you?" I assured him that I was far better at mine than he was at his. Muttering...
African Leader Maurice Lalubi (Woody Strode) is a world-famous apostle of nonviolence-what the Italian film makers choose to dub a Black Jesus. The fascist regime of his country hurriedly runs him to earth. Brought before the local Pontius Pilate (Jean Servais), Lalubi is cast into jail with a thief (Franco Citti), and tortured with nails driven into his hands. After a series of graphic humiliations, he is stabbed in the side by a soldier and dies. Organ music purls throughout to underline both the literal symbolism and the unadorned wretchedness of the performances. Two exceptions must be noted...
Though patterns were her favorite preoccupation, people's faces brought her the most fame. Bourke-White portraits of suffering slum dwellers or world statesmen showed the same deep sensitivity. Her persistence and unceasing quest for perfection once led Mahatma Gandhi to dub her "the torturer." Churchill scowled memorably for her; she coaxed a rare smile out of a stone-faced Stalin, she explained, by assuming "all kinds of crazy postures searching for a good camera angle." In World War II she became the first accredited woman war photographer. While covering Russian soldiers fighting the Nazis within 150 miles...
Party Purge. As it is, Czechoslovak institutions have been thoroughly altered since the reformist days of 1968. Within the party, screening commissions and intimidation have weeded out 500,000 errant Communists who backed Dubč's 1968 reforms, reducing membership to 1,200,000. Hoping to save their own skins, friends secretly denounced one another before the commission inquiring into activities under Dubč that are now considered questionable. Loss of party cards has meant loss of livelihood as well. Teachers have had to become taxi drivers; diplomats, hotel clerks; and intellectuals, gas-station attendants. Even the still popular...