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...rally: "I know what is going on. I am going on. Your government is going on!" Wilson thereupon confided that he intended "taking this country by the scruff of the neck" and forcing it to do what was needed to be done, regardless of the consequences to the Labor Party...
...gloomy budget for 1969-70. Then Crossman casually announced that the government was raising by 25% the price of dentures and spectacles obtained through the National Health Service. Everything about the announcement by Crossman was wrong. It was released right on the eve of local elections in which. Labor's chances were poor to begin with, and it seemed almost calculated to rile the very backbenchers who had organized the abortive revolt. Worst of all, it reminded everyone in both parties that back in 1951 a similar charge for dentures and spectacles was enough to provoke Wilson...
...hysterical. Backbenchers collected 125 signatures calling for an immediate withdrawal of Cross-man's rates. Asked one Laborite: "Why should the edentulous and the myopic be expected to correct our balance of payments?" Further, a round-robin letter, sponsored by right-wing Laborites, demanded a secret ballot by Labor M.P.s to determine whether Wilson should remain as Prime Minister and party leader. In a move without precedent, Parliamentary Labor Party Chairman Douglas Houghton warned Wilson that he could push his union reform through Parliament only at the risk of blowing apart the party. At week...
Among the small group of Russian protesters who continually brave beatings, labor camps and exile by publicly opposing the policies of the regime, the most unlikely rebel is a truculent bear of a man named Pyotr Grigorenko. The demonstrators are typically youthful intellectuals; Grigorenko is a limping elder of 63 who until five years ago held a major general's commission in the Red Army and before that taught cybernetics at the elite Frunze Military Academy in Moscow. Others may wear a beard as an ensign of protest. The clean-shaven Grigorenko's emblem is a cane that...
Grigorenko's first outburst in 1961 -a criticism of the "Khrushchev cult" -eventually resulted in his discharge from the army followed by his commitment to a mental hospital for 14 months as a schizophrenic. This is a favorite Soviet punishment for dissenting intellectuals, short of shipment to a labor camp. Since then, because of his age, disability and service record-he had risen from private to general in 34 years and was a distinguished division commander in World War II-the government has merely admonished him for his outspokenness. Anti-Soviet agitation, however, is a serious charge. The possible...