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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tragically for the men involved, such kidnapings carry their own catch-22: the more governments give in to save the victims, the more frequent they become. Ceding to blackmail demands, Nixon insisted last week, was unthink able. The threat, he said harshly but realistically, was "a risk that an ambassador has to take...
Kept in solitary confinement for six of his seven years' imprisonment, and often locked in leg irons, Ramsey was subjected to frequent indoctrination. He supplied some antiwar statements but they were too ambivalent to be printed or broadcast for propaganda purposes. The opposition that he expressed to the war, he believes, was within "my Constitutional prerogatives as an individual. When I got out, I discovered that the Administration had made many of the changes I was concerned about: the movement from the atmosphere of the Crusades to that of the Congress of Vienna, from religious fanaticism to Metternich...
...oddities of these times is that the U.S. seems able to get along better with Communist dictators than with the governments of free nations. The meetings with the high men of Peking, Moscow and Hanoi are more frequent and appear to be more candid and intimate than some with the leaders of Canada, France or Germany. In some instances over the past months there has appeared to be more camaraderie and humor between Communists and the U.S. representatives than has existed lately between the diplomats of this nation and the democratic societies of Europe and Asia...
Today the average informed American views Europe as a wealthy, technologically advanced, comfortable and somewhat expensive society that has somehow learned how to get the most out of life without sacrificing its values. There is still a lingering sense of romance in the American view of Europe, and a frequent notion that somehow the Europeans are less hysterical about sex; but the notion of European sexual wickedness compared to American purity is fading with the consciousness that most European countries are, in fact, far less "permissive" than the U.S. today...
Josh Rubins and George Birnbaum, the two law students who directed and produced as well as wrote the musical, have done their best to make this prologue hang together and move--they supply frequent word-echoes to help tie the situation in Parliament to the scene at the Pankhursts's, and by introducing Alf and Charlie, two Stock music-hall types, they made a valiant effort to frame the musical interludes a la Cabaret and represent the expected male chauvinist point of view. But Alf and Charlie (John McNamara and James Dudley) never use their stereotype roles effectively: their voices...