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Other West Germans are even more outspoken. The clear long-range danger is that if Germans are to be cast permanently in the role of serfs to the Alliance's nuclear knights, the resulting bitterness will lead to a new outburst of German nationalism. The West Germans know that for the foreseeable future they cannot have nuclear weapons of their own. Germany with the Bomb is a prospect that alarms Western Europe nearly as much as it does Russia and the satellites. What Erhard does want is a greater share in both nuclear planning and in the control over...
Public Flogging. His outspoken defiance turned Sir Humphrey, 63, a gaunt and rangy Englishman who settled in Rhodesia 37 years ago, into the foremost symbol of opposition to the Smith regime. Staying with him in Government House was Rhodesia's Chief Justice Sir Hugh Beadle. Outside, more than 3,000 Rhodesians, white and black alike, stood in line last week to sign his guest book...
Joseph Lee allowed himself to be identified with Mrs. Hicks, despite his August vote in favor of busing. Lee has always been fairly outspoken in his opposition to the principle of racial balancing, but he has his own scheme for satisfying the state requirements. Dubbed "scatteration," the plan calls for shipping Negro children to suburban schools, where Boston would pay their tuition. Theoretically this would halt the exodus of white Boston residents to the lily-white suburbs...
...ambiguous this document will be in its final wording remains to be seen. Italian Bishop Luigi Carli of Segni, one of the council's most outspoken conservatives, has submitted a host of amendments seeking to emphasize the truth of Catholic thinking and the error of other views. U.S. Jesuit John Courtney Murray, who is regarded as the architect of the declaration, has had bishop friends propose amendments strengthening it. And the council has yet to hear from Paul, who has a great sense of compassion for the conservatives and is eager to nourish their support for church renewal...
When the Boston Symphony made its triumphant debut in Moscow in 1956, Russian audiences were shocked to discover what the outside world had long acknowledged-that U.S. orchestras were the world's finest. Russian cultural circles began buzzing with talk of the "orchestra gap." One of the most outspoken critics was Kiril Kondrashin, then conductor with the Bolshoi opera, who bluntly declared that Russian orchestras had to shape up. Four years later, when Kondrashin was appointed conductor of the Moscow Philharmonic, he admitted that "the U.S. orchestra is the ideal I am working toward...