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...Enemy." Harsh as the terms seemed, the Japanese had little choice. They were "negotiating" under a Nixon ultimatum: agree by Oct. 15 or the White House would impose mandatory quotas under the U.S. Trading with the Enemy Act. U.S. officials further warned that failure to agree to textile quotas could delay the return of Okinawa to Japanese control. With the same strong-arm threat of mandatory quotas, the U.S. forced similar agreements on South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong last week. In return, the U.S. lifted the 10% surcharge on textiles from all countries. Except for steel, goods that...
...remarkably good shape after his near-fatal stroke, can handle his political problems as astutely as his military ones is another question. Criticism from the middle class, civil servants, students and intellectuals has not on the whole been directed against him personally. But his response has been harsh. He fired First Vice Premier In Tam and stripped him of his brigadier general's rank. In Tam is widely respected as an incorruptible politician, but Lon Nol apparently feared that he would be an eventual rival...
...would be poppycock for anyone to attempt to explain away the convicts' actions with the oft-heard clichés that, after all, they were 1) innocent "victims of our harsh society," 2) in prison "only because they were black," or 3) "political prisoners." Governor Rockefeller did exactly the right thing. And now let's not have the courts get lenient with these murderous convicts...
...Hickman scenes strike the viewer particularly because, for once, the antagonists are clearly defined, and their personal conflicts complex. The incidents are restricted, so that their meat is revealed without harsh imposition on attention-span. And, finally, they say something definite: they not only describe how the army deals with an unbalanced individual, but why, by design, it is incapable of doing so. Hickman is urged to pick himself up, and keep on struggling with the group: that's the only way to be a man. It is, of course, the only way the army can conceive...
OFFICIAL methods of dealing with dissident intellectuals in the Soviet Union have always been harsh and arbitrary. They are no longer, as in Stalin's day, summarily shot. Now, with the authorities anxious to preserve legal forms, an increasingly common punishment for dissenters is confinement to mental hospitals that are often jails in disguise. Technically, Soviet courts cannot sentence a man to prison or labor camp unless he has violated the criminal code. Health officers, however, can commit anyone to "emergency psychiatric hospitalization" if his behavior is simply deemed abnormal. "Why bother with political trials," a leading Soviet forensic...