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Oddly enough, while the government has lately gone all out to attract tourists to Czechoslovakia, it has detained more than 60 Western tourists in the past year, many of them for minor traffic violations or petty smuggling charges. It has yet to explain the mysterious death of Charles Jordan, vice chairman of the American Joint Distribution Committee, whose body was found in the Vltava River in August. Another sign of a less permissive policy: Czech border guards have opened fire on fugitives from Communism, in the past two months killing two and wounding three others who were trying to cross...
Johnson's loudest applause-after the round that greeted his support for higher police pay-was evoked by his condemnation of racial violence in the slums. "Much can explain but nothing can justify the riots of 1967," he said. Condemning Black Power agitators, "whose interests lay in provoking others to destruction while they fled its consequences," Johnson declared: "These wretched, vulgar men-these poisonous propagandists-posed as spokesmen for the underprivileged and capitalized on the real grievances of the suffering people...
...incentives. Marx has, if anything, become something of an embarrassment. Last week the only Marxists who took much public note of Das Kapital's anniversary were the East Germans-perhaps because Marx was a German. East German Party Boss Walter Ulbricht spoke at a symposium on Marx to explain why his regime has adopted the use of profits. He argued that profits are something different when they "increase social wealth" and go to a government that owns the means of production rather than to a few capitalists. But no matter how they squirm, the Communists cannot rid themselves entirely...
West German critics greeted the rediscovery of Schönfeld with rejoicing, calling him "a man of major stature." They were somewhat at a loss to explain how such a great master could have been consigned to oblivion for so long. The best explanation seemed to be that Schönfeld's preoccupation with the macabre and the absurd, his penchant for scenes of gravediggers and treasure seekers, marked him as a German Romantic two centuries ahead of his time. Then, too, Schönfeld limned his scenes of violence in a cool, depersonalized vein. In the opinion...
...tough on rioters, the chiefs were tired of being whipping boys, and their mood mirrored the edgy morale of line cops back home. Partly to buck up that mo rale, Lyndon Johnson made a surprise visit to the Kansas City convention, told his audience that "much can explain - but nothing can justify - the riots of 1967" (see THE NATION). The chiefs applauded him enthusiastically, but it was the chance to mingle and exchange problems and solutions that gave the I.A.C.P. meeting its real value-a value that, coupled with the association's other activities, has dramatically increased its reputation...