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...accused "conspirators" appeared delighted with the opportunity to challenge the legitimacy of the war in the courts. "I suppose that the only way it can be tested is if people of some repute are arrested and tried," said Goodman. Coffin, the day before the Pentagon march, urged outright violation of the draft law: "If they are now arrested for failing to comply with the law that violates their consciences, we too must be arrested, for in the sight of that law we are now as guilty as they." When he was not immediately arrested, he called the Government "derelict...
...outcome of the Czechoslovak power struggle was a singular victory for liberal forces throughout Eastern Europe. Novotný's fall reduces the number of outright Stalinist rulers to one: East Germany's Walter Ulbricht, who, understandably, had tried to dissuade the Czechoslovak leaders from overthrowing his ideological comrade. The Russians did not seem noticeably bereaved at the loss; Brezhnev immediately fired off a congratulatory telegram to Dubček. Nor did the Czechoslovak public display any particular grief. In their 20th year under Communist rule and 50th year as a nation, most Czechoslovaks hoped that the new changes...
...Boumediene, 42, who methodically dismantled the chaotic collective farms and factories set up by Ben Bella in favor of a system of state capitalism that at least forestalled the collapse of all production. His distrust grew to resentment as Boumediene filled his Cabinet with technocrats. The resentment turned to outright rebellion when the President began easing the old guerrilla chiefs out of their army commands and installing officers with solid professional military training in their places...
...success of the occupation has been so great that it has led many Israeli politicians to demand outright the annexation of the conquered lands once and for all. The government, whatever its intent may be, publicly rejects such ideas. "It is not enough for us to look down from the Golan Heights, see our settlements lying safe below, and say that now peace is assured," said Defense Minister Moshe Dayan two weeks ago. "We shall have to look at it also from the point of view of the Syrians, who see our troops 38 miles from Damascus...
...Simenon's stylistic economy has been sharpened to outright penury; the silences of the author are as telling as those of his characters. His one re maining indulgence is loving descriptions of a Paris that never loses its intimate ambiance, never grows...