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...country's new Premier. Fock, who replaces Gyula Kállai, 57, is the author of Hungary's "New Economic Mechanism," which goes into effect next year. He is expected to steer a middle course between the conservatives, who want to keep the economy in the firm grip of the party planners, and those who advocate a major role for private initiative both in the factories and on the ailing kholkozes (collective farms...
rich Carthage with her mercenary grip stretched from Gibratar to the steaming Nile...
...liberal peace movement the trickle of federal dollars for social projects will be shut off completely. Certainly, on the one hand, these conditions will open up new fronts for organizing but as we have noted above, the government will be unable to tolerate any dissent, as its grip on a domestic consensus becomes even more tenuous...
...Addio is clearly genuine, and it is hard to deny the film's message: that much of the Dark Continent today is beset by violence and turmoil. But with a careful selection of film clips, an adroit director could make most parts of the world seem in the grip of terror-many far more so than Africa. Despite its lofty pretensions, the film has all too obviously been made for its shock value alone. As such, it is genuinely shocking. It is the value that is questionable...
Senator Mark O. Hatfield (R-Ore.) said last night that America is in the grip of "the subtle tyranny of no alternatives" and that Republicans can win the presidency in 1968 only if they offer "a choice, not an echo" on Vietnam...