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...summit drew closer, all Eastern Europe was edgy-and unsure of exactly what lay ahead. Despite their studied nonchalance, the Czechoslovak people pressed their leaders hard not to compromise. Thousands of them lined up to sign copies of a manifesto, written by Playwright Pavel Kohout and printed in the journal Literární Listy, which exhorted the leaders to "act, explain and unanimously defend the way that we have entered and do not in tend to leave while we live." Along with the manifesto, the journal's editors ran a cartoon showing a gargantuan figure of Soviet Party...
What so excited the Russians was a growing number of democratic measures in Czechoslovakia that are unheard of in most other Communist countries (see following story). The Russians apparently decided that matters had got out of hand when Prague newspapers printed a manifesto demanding that hard-line and usually pro-Soviet Communists be driven from high government and party posts, and urging the public to use strikes, boycotts and demonstrations to force them out. Known as "the 2,000 words," the manifesto was originally signed by 70 members of the country's elite, including artists, film directors and athletes...
Overlapping Program. If the Alliance is not identical with the National Liberation Front, the political arm of the Viet Cong, it certainly comes close. The "Save the Country Manifesto" it issued after the Mimot meeting significantly overlaps with the N.L.F.'s long-announced 14 points in demanding the withdrawal of U.S. troops and bases and the creation of an independent, neutral South Viet Nam. Still, nine of its ten leaders have never been identified as Communists or as having had close association with the Viet Cong-although all have neutralist or leftist backgrounds. Chairman Trinh Dinh Thao...
...Innis, a Harlem-honed black nationalist, will formally replace McKissick next month at CORE's convention in Columbus. Innis, 34, is a bearded manifesto maker who holds that "separation of unlikes is the natural condition of society," and says that blacks generally favor nonviolence, but "not over the achievement of nationalistic objectives." He professes a fear of genocide, not "by the gas chamber but by the slow taking away of our existence" through racial amalgamation. Appealing to Negroes to improve their own lot rather than die in all-out conflict with the white man, Innis adds nonetheless: "We believe...
Approval of the manifesto was largely the work of the Baptists' outgoing president, the Rev. Franklin Paschall, a Nashville liberal who had to face loud and sometimes bitter minority opposition in pushing it through. Opponents of the measure argued that Baptists should not take stands on secular issues. Most of the messengers seemed to agree with one delegate who answered: "Let's not emasculate the one good thing we have done in 100 years...