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...agreement winds up the last unfinished business that dates back to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. In a speech to the National Press Club, Premier Sato, who speaks in fluent but accented English, hailed the Okinawa accord as bringing the postwar period to a close. He promised that Japan, as an equal partner of the U.S., "will make its contribution to the peace and prosperity of the Asian-Pacific region, and hence to the entire world." Sato could afford to be expansive. By having satisfactorily settled the Okinawa issue, he had greatly enhanced his own political standing at home...
...call attention to the plight of 500,000 political prisoners in 60 countries, Amnesty International last week nominated its first "Prisoners of the Year." Those selected: Eleni Voulgari of Greece, who was sent to prison for ten years by the Greek junta for sheltering her Communist brother-in-law; Daniel Madzimbamuto of Rhodesia, an African nationalist leader who was imprisoned without trial four years ago; and Larisa Daniel of the Soviet Union, wife of imprisoned Russian author Yuli Daniel, who was sentenced herself in 1968 to four years of Siberian exile for demonstrating against the Soviet policy of "fraternal...
...birth next Dec. 21. Major articles in Pravda and Izvestia are in preparation, together with a four-volume edition of his works. Posters and a statue are also being made ready for the event. As if to confirm the Chronicle's prediction, two pictures of Stalin last week appeared in a photo exhibit of Soviet history in Moscow. Since the Kremlin's attitude toward Stalin often has been a barometer of the government's willingness to repress dissenters, rehabilitation of the defamed dictator would portend an even bleaker era for the readers of the Chronicle...
...Leningrad last December, three intellectuals were tried and sentenced to hard labor for "producing, harboring and circulating works of an anti-Soviet nature." These included Milovan Djilas' The New Class and Barry Goldwater's Why Not Victory? and The Conscience of a Conservative...
Four-Legged Economy. The mood is all the gloomier in Rangoon because many people had felt Ne Win was on the verge of making some overdue changes. Last year, in what seemed to be an effort to broaden his political base, he set up an "internal unity advisory board" composed of 33 old politicians, including former Premier...