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...streets in a dashiki, arouses fear or hatred in many whites. Detroit's police and school officials see him as an ir responsible agitator. However, in the boardroom of New Detroit Inc., the city's branch of the antipoverty Urban Coalition, Ditto sits on a 40-member board with people like Henry Ford and the chairman of General Motors. There, Ditto's words-even if couched in the abrasive patois of the ghetto-are listened to carefully. Says William T. Patrick Jr., New Detroit president: "Frank Ditto's is a valid voice. If Ditto...
...earlier, in the much bloodier suppression of the Hungarian uprising, nearly every Communist Party in the world had supported the Soviet action. This time every major foreign party expressed disapproval, ranging from violent protest (Italy, Sweden, Yugoslavia) to distaste tempered by expediency (France and Cuba). Even Ru mania, a member of the Warsaw Pact, though it did not take part in the invasion, censured the action. Only in significant parties that depend on the Soviet dole (such as those in the U.S. and most in Latin America and the Middle East) endorsed the move...
...something else that it would dearly love to extract from the delegates. That is an endorsement of the principle of limited sovereignty as expressed in the Brezhnev Doctrine. As a justification for the invasion of Czechoslovakia, the Soviet party boss last November expounded a new policy asserting that members of the Socialist Commonwealth have the right to intervene in the affairs of another member whenever the purity and primacy of socialism are endangered in that country. Foreign Communists who feel most threatened by the policy, notably the Rumanians and Yugoslavs, fear that the So viets will use the doctrine...
Andrew F. Brimmer, LL.D., member of the board of governors of the Federal Reserve System...
Fantasy Window. One outstanding member of the "new grotesques" is Gregory Gillespie, 32, a native of New Jersey who now lives in Rome and shows at Manhattan's Forum Gallery. Gilles pie, who first went to Italy on a Fulbright in 1963, paints with tempera and oil on wood panels, as did Bellini and Giorgione, and loves Renaissance perspective. He limns tiny images of skinned-looking women or bloated, lecherous men as zestfully as Bosch him self, and sets them against the wall of a squalid Roman slum. Surrealistically oozing globules and pustules contrast with saints' pictures...