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...appeared that no U.S. decision had yet been taken. But one high-ranking West European official said, "We would not be surprised if the military option is shortly engaged." Like the U.S. interception of an Egyptian airliner carrying the alleged hijackers of the cruise ship Achille Lauro to freedom, that move would send an unmistakable message to Libya, Abu Nidal, the P.L.O. and any other sources of terrorism: such acts against U.S. citizens will not go unanswered. Whether that would have any effect on discouraging future terrorism was quite another question. --By William E. Smith. Reported by Walter Galling/Rome, Gertraud...
...state of emergency should mean that freedom of speech and assembly are restored. But Zia will probably extend those rights selectively, using the Political Parties Act to weed out undesirable opposition groups. In what may have been a sobering harbinger of the future, police arrested about 200 people two weeks ago when the Movement for the Restoration of Democracy, a coalition of eleven banned parties calling for Zia's immediate resignation, tried to stage a demonstration in Lahore...
Young black militants, some bearing the green, gold and black colors of the outlawed African National Congress, stood shoulder to shoulder with conservatively dressed white matrons inside St. John's Methodist Church in a comfort able all-white neighborhood of Port Elizabeth. Together they sang freedom songs and prayed for a more peaceful future. For black and white South Africans, it was an unusual display of racial harmony. The occasion: the funeral of Molly Blackburn, a leading white antiapartheid activist who was killed in an automobile crash...
...controversy caught fire last fall when a journalistic organization, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, announced plans to screen Murrow in Washington as part of a fund-raising event scheduled for this week. Two prominent CBS newsmen who are members of the R.C.F.P. steering committee, Dan Rather and Walter Cronkite, voiced strong objections. The film, they charged, presents a distorted picture of the network's brass, particularly former CBS President Frank Stanton, who comes across as a shallow "numbers cruncher." Further, according to committee members, Rather argued that the R.C.F.P. should not lend its support to a movie...
...lyricism. He was a young man of the ideological '30s, though politically he appears to have been in the thin of it: a Communist briefly in his youth and a liberal during the years before and after World War II. He later joined the Congress for Cultural Freedom and became an editor for its anti-Communist magazine Encounter. He quit in 1967 after learning that the C.C.F. was being used as a funding conduit...