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Blind Eye. The carriers seem to be resisting the broom-wielding administration of Eduard Shevardnadze, an austere former police chief who was made regional party boss in 1972, when private corruption threatened to engulf the entire local Communist organization. With officials turning a blind eye, profiteers had, among other things, been looting several large factories and selling their products on the black market. Capitalist-minded peasants had been loading flowers and produce aboard Aeroflot flights to Moscow, where they could be sold at large profit...
...Eduard F. Sekler, director of Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, said yesterday that the outcome of the visiting committee report on the Visual and Environmental Studies department (VES) will probably reflect favorably on the department...
Mankind's authors (Mihajlo Mesarovic, director of Case Western Reserve University's Systems Research Center in Cleveland, and Eduard Pestel, head of Germany's Institute of Mechanics at the Technical University of Hannover) are subdued in tone and, if anything, more optimistic than pessimistic. Their computer treats the world not as a monolithic entity but as ten interdependent regions, each with its peculiar economic, social and geophysical characteristics...
...latest purge was instigated by the new Georgian party leader, puritanical former Police Chief Eduard Shevardnadze, 45. He was put in his job a year ago to bring the Georgians into line and reduce what a party paper calls their "deviations from the norm of Communist morality." So far he has swept at least 45 officials out of the local party. In addition to economic crimes, the purged party officials were accused of accepting payoffs and, equally vile, indulging in ideological slackness...
...combing their shelves, removing thousands of works by some 300 Czechoslovak authors. The books are being crated and shipped to an unknown destination for pulping. References to them in library card catalogues are being destroyed. Works about or by Czechoslovakia's founder, Tomas Masaryk, and about his successor, Eduard Benes, have disappeared-as have all records relating to Alexander Dubcek's 1968 fall from power. Editions of Marx and Engels fare no better if they contain prefaces by blacklisted authors...