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...balance of payments deficit, Johnson has set his sights on the big spenders. His major proposals: 1) a tax, effective May 1, on expenditures by travelers abroad of more than $10 a day, which is scarcely enough to pay for the sauce béarnaise on the tournedos at Maxim's; 2) a 5% tax on ship and air fares to the Eastern Hemisphere; and 3) cuts in the $100 customs duty allowance for goods purchased abroad, and abolition of exemptions for gifts costing less than...
...conspicuous figure during the closed-door trial. Not allowed inside the courtroom, he talked outside with foreign correspondents and signed a statement branding the proceeding a "wild mockery." He has managed to avoid arrest so far only because he is the grandson of the late Foreign Minister Maxim Litvinov, and thus the scion of an old Bolshevik family. "I am definitely not a revolutionary, but neither am I an organization man," he says. "I must do what my heart tells me." Still uncowed after his dismissal, Litvinov announced that he would fight to get his job back by appealing...
...wild mockery, unthinkable in the 20th century." That is how one young Russian, Pavel Litvinov, the grandson of ex-Soviet Foreign Minister Maxim Litvinov, described the trial in Moscow last week of four young intellectuals accused of anti-Soviet agitation. In a show of defiance not seen for years in the Soviet Union, members of the country's educated elite challenged the government's case. Several petitions circulated, demanding "a full public airing" at the trial. Crowds gathered outside the courtroom, yelling, shoving and needling security guards. But Soviet justice pays scant heed to public opinion. After...
...real evil of conspiracy is that it is a vehicle used by the prosecutor to get in evidence that he could not otherwise possibly get in." Some legal scholars agree. Yale Law Professor Abraham Goldstein says: "It threatens the whole fair-trial notion." And, he adds, it crowds the maxim of Anglo-Saxon law that a man cannot be punished for evil intent alone...
...Paris, Americans are not yet barred from Maxim's, the Lido or the Folies-Bergere, and 26,000 U.S. residents in France are still permitted to pay De Gaulle's taxes. One heartening note: a poll by the French Institute of Public Opinion reported that only 27% of the French think that the U.S. is a military threat to Europe. Some Frenchmen even profess to like Americans. Expatriates often hear such remarks as: "We think the general is being too tough on you, and we don't all share his feelings." Such remarks are usually passed late...