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Some Kremlin watchers are not so sure. British Sovietologist Leopold Labedz contends that any Brezhnev illness would be bound to touch off a power struggle in the Kremlin, if only because the Russians have never solved the problem of how to transfer authority in an orderly succession. According to this logic, competing factions in the Kremlin would try to exploit Brezhnev's physical weakness by pinning any recent policy failures on him as a pretext to seize power. Columbia University Political Scientist Zbigniew Brzezinski, as well as many Moscow-based diplomats, speculate that the party chief has already come...
...General Joseph Luns, the distinguished, strongly anti-Communist Dutch diplomat, warned at the Ottawa meeting that the U.S.S.R. considers détente a "oneway process serving the exclusive interests of the Soviet Union." One school of Kremlinologists, centered chiefly in Britain and including such men as Robert Conquest and Leopold Labedz, label détente "the American failure." They see American losses in everything from trade to the strategic balance...
...most telling hint to date that Chou has either stepped or been pushed into the background came earlier this month when he failed to attend a banquet in his honor given by visiting Senegalese President Leopold Senghor at the Great Hall of the People in Peking. It was the first time that Chou has been known to miss a scheduled public appearance...
Died. John O. Levinson, 59, Chicago attorney who, as a nine-year-old boy, was the original murder target of self-styled "Supermen" Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb; of cancer; in Portland, Me. Levinson was a friend of Loeb's younger brother Tommy in 1924 when the jaded teen-age duo decided on him as the victim of their "perfect crime." The pair attempted to follow Levinson home from a sand-lot baseball game, but he had turned down a different street from the usual one and inadvertently eluded them. They then killed 14-year-old Bobby Franks instead...
Clarence Darrow represents some of the best America that we can remember -a rugged liberalism long before it was gilded with chic, the common man invested with intellect. In a nation of somewhat disheveled justice, Darrow did genuinely unpopular things as a lawyer from 1878 to 1938. He saved Leopold and Loeb from the death penalty, defended blacks against rape charges, kept the lynch mobs from the Haymarket "conspirators." He was an honest and useful...