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Last October the West German Evangelical Church, a 30 million-member amalgam of the nation's major Protestant churches, decided to blast the Oder-Neisse question off dead center. In a 44-page memorandum, the church argued that German legal claims to the lost territories were balanced by the "grave injustice" done to Poland by Nazi...
Germany. After all, 6,000,000 Poles-half of them Jewish-were killed by Hitler. "Right stands against right," declared the memorandum, "or-still more dramatically-injustice against injustice." Nowhere did the memorandum demand a dropping of the expellees' claims, but it did ask for a "spirit of reconciliation." The response was far from conciliatory...
...over a year, the U.S. has tried to restrain anti-Castroites from such exciting but basically pointless adventures.†The surveillance has been in creased fivefold since the Cuban refugee evacuation began last month with a rush of small boats from Florida; now that Castro has signed a "memorandum of understanding" to set up an airlift of 3,000-4,000 refugees a month, no one wants to give him any excuse to renege...
According to a department memorandum that will circulate on Tuesday, the new policy will go into effect in January. Isaac Kramnick, head tutor in Government, said that the solution reflects the Government Department's unanimous recommendation that all grades be abolished. But in order to establish a totally ungraded course, the Committee on Educational Policy told the Department that a vote by the Faculty would be necessary...
...Free Strikes. But, for all the safeguards, mistakes are made and civilians hurt, which is why Westmoreland last week tightened the leash on his weaponry still further with another memorandum demanding greater caution. Hard on its heels came an Air Force decree tightening control over some 200 "free-strike zones" at which pilots had been free to blast away at will. Henceforth FAC planes will patrol each of the known Viet Cong zones, pinpoint strikes within them as in the rest of South Viet Nam. A B-52 raid originally planned for the big allied sweep...