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Evans, 22, a regional organizer for the Students for a Democratic Society. The leader of the group was Rennard C. Davis, the National Coordinator of the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Viet Nam. A founding member of the S.D.S., Davis has been a longtime, virulent critic of the Viet Nam war and one of the most enterprising organizers of the radical movement. Dellinger and Davis are under indictment on charges of conspiracy to incite a riot during last August's Democratic Convention. With less than five hours left before his plane's departure, Davis managed...
...around the country are banding together to compare their cars and defend them to any one who will listen. Edselana in the form of badges, buckles and cap medallions is circulating. The trinkets feature a reproduction of Edsel's rather forgettable front-end design. Two weeks ago, 50 members of the Edsel Owners Club of America rolled into Reno, under a banner reading "The Edsels Are Here," for the club's first Western regional meeting. Last weekend, the 600-member club held its first national convention at the Indianapolis Speedway, while 50 members of the Midwest Area Edsel...
...since the invasion, police have detained at least 50 persons for printing or distributing "antisocialist" leaflets. Czechoslovakia's Communist Party has issued stern warnings against "provocations." An ominous visitor has arrived in Prague. He is Soviet General Aleksei Epishev, chief political commissar of the Russian army and a member of the Soviet Central Committee, whose job it is to repress political dissent...
This ominous new outbreak of tribal tension was set off by last month's assassination of Tom Mboya, who was the Minister of Economic Planning and Development in the predominantly Kikuyu government. Mboya was a member of the Luo tribe, a rival of the Kikuyu. The arrested suspect is a Kikuyu. In addition to reacting to possible trouble with the Luo, the Kikuyu are also closing ranks in preparation for a national election within the next eight months...
...Kikuyu, so the story went, had asked Kenyatta, who is a member of the tribe, to allow mass oath taking. Outsiders do not know Kenyatta's response, but there is no doubt that his yard has become the scene of mass oath ceremonies. Many non-Kikuyu citizens fear that Kenyatta, the founder of the country, has been pressured into allowing tribal factionalism at the expense of national unity and his own policy of pulling the tribes together...