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...groundwork for a new barter on Germany. He was not interested in reunification with free elections, which has long been Adenauer's and the West's position. He knows that his half has no moral authority, as shown by the number of refugees-2.000 a week-who flee to West Germany's prosperity and freedom. But he also knows the longing of all Germans for a closer community. His apparent strategy: using Berlin as his lever, to conclude a Big Four peace treaty over Germany that would leave to the "mutual consent" of the Germans their future...
Compounding the tendency to flee to greener pastures from New Haven is the close proximity of New York--an hour and a half away--and several women's colleges: Smith only two hours distant, and Wellesley but three. The casualness of Elis towards traveling is exemplified by three who journeyed to Wellesley in order to take blind dates to a movie. It is the avowed purpose of President Griswold to cut down on this roaming by increasing academic work loads...
...tradition, the life story of the Latin American dictator goes something like this: win power, steal, flee (aided by the hallowed tradition of "political asylum"), spend and enjoy. The story almost never includes: return home, face the music. Last week, in a startling change in the familiar pattern, the democratic government of Colombia stood up to a brazen former strongman and made him answer for his actions...
Died. Kaung Zang-tze, 73, Methodist bishop in Red China, longtime minister who in 1930 baptized Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek into the Christian faith; of pneumonia; in Shanghai. In 1949 when the Communist regime took over, Kaung Zang-tze refused to flee Peking, saying his duty was to stay and look after the Christian population...
...farm boy happens upon them, leads them back to the burrow where he and his deserted mother (Cara Williams) live. The woman helps them smash the chain, spends the night with Joker Jackson, and persuades him to flee with her while Cullen heads overland to hop a northbound freight. In a scene that would be the worst sort of corn if the script faltered, Curtis learns that the woman has directed Poitier through a quicksand bog. Their painfully borne chain, even broken, has bound them irrevocably together, and Curtis plunges after him to sure capture by the law. Behind...