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Died. György Lukács, 86, Communist theoretician; in Budapest. Though often called "the greatest Marxist since Karl Marx," the courtly ideologist still managed to offend both Lenin and Stalin. Lukacs eloquently criticized the rigidity of Soviet doctrine, then, while in exile in Moscow, was forced by Stalin to denounce his own early works. He survived periodic purges to join in the chorus of denunciation later directed against Stalin. A champion of such Communist heresies as pluralism and literary freedom, Lukács took part in the 1956 Hungarian uprising. He managed to avoid punishment and resumed...
Confined to hospitals or to their homes were Premier Aleksei Kosygin, President Nikolai Podgorny, Communist Party Ideologist Mikhail Suslov, Trade Union Leader Alexander Shelepin and Deputy Premier Dmitry Polyansky. Such widespread contagion within the U.S.S.R.'s ruling body-some spoke of the "Politburo plague"-revived last month's rumors of a Kremlin shake-up (TIME, March 23). It is, of course, medically possible (if statistically implausible) that all are genuinely ill, especially in view of the advanced age of some of the patients: Kosygin, Podgorny and Suslov are all over 65. But many analysts speculated that Party Chief...
...April 11, three bullets slammed into Rudi ("The Red") Dutschke, 28, West Germany's firebrand New Left student ideologist. Two of the slugs lodged in his head, one in his shoulder. Few expected him to live; indeed, his life hung in the balance for days. Now, after two delicate brain operations, Rudi is out of danger and recuperating "somewhere in Italy," according to an illustrated spread in West Germany's Stern magazine. Stern's report shows that Rudi has progressed to the point where he can knock out a few croquet games each day, bat a pingpong...
...pity the poor Socialists. They always seem to get into trouble when they move out of the old ideologist neighborhood and associate with Center parties. Even more than Willy Brandt's Socialists in West Germany's recent state elections, Pietro Nenni's Socialist Party suffered a serious setback in the Italian elections...
...continuing purges, which Gomulka has unsuccessfully tried to moderate, indicate that his troubles are far from over. Last week two of his own supporters on the ruling twelve-man Politburo, Cyrankiewicz and Party Ideologist Zenon Kliszko, came out in favor of the purges. That sign of approval from his own camp may have been the price Gomulka paid to avoid an immediate showdown with his critics, but it also whetted their desire for power. Police Boss Mieczyslaw Moczar, the man behind much of the anti-Gomulka dissidence but normally a shadowy figure, appeared three times in the past two weeks...