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...Soviet press opened a new attack on the Prague leadership, There were also reports that Soviet army officers were encouraging conservative Communists to form anti Dubček factions. The main problem is that Dubček's popularity remains so high among Czechoslovaks that any move to overthrow him would most likely require direct Soviet military action and perhaps even the creation of a military government. Under those circumstances, the Kremlin leaders still seem reluctant to pursue their claims of total domination of the Socialist Commonwealth to the final logical, if bloody, conclusion...
...doctrine that attributes all wars, racial injustices, and poverty to the machinations of a capitalist and militarist "Establishment." Student revolutionists within SDS planned turbulent confrontations and revolutionary tactics. They manipulated facts in ways that created distrust and bred unwarranted antagonism. There apparently was occasional talk of wider revolution to overthrow the present political system. A very few revolutionists may have been in dead earnest. More, we suspect, were half in dreamland, feverishly discussing romantic tactics but hardly contemplating realistic execution. Part of the responsibility for the disturbances rests upon the revolutionaries consciously seeking to subvert and destroy the University...
...constitution restricts unions from organizing against the interests of the existing social order. It's quite true that Greece was strike-ridden before the revolution and that walk-outs seriously worried many Greeks, but most observers didn't think in terms of the strikes being dangerous enough to overthrow the government...
...carried around the world that the czars took heed. In the early years of Communist rule, Maxim Gorky wielded his renown to save and protect people, until he died a mysterious death probably arranged by Stalin. Boris Pasternak constituted an invisible government that the regime could never quite overthrow. Khrushchev could make Pasternak give up his Nobel Prize, but no one could erase the protest he raised in his masterwork, Doctor Zhivago: "They only ask you to praise what you hate most and to grovel before what makes you most unhappy...
...McCarthy forces have formed an insurgent reformist group, the Coalition of Independent Democrats and Independents to try to take over the party. This fall they will fight for Sen. Joseph Clark's re-election; later they will attempt to build the grass-roots organization to overthrow "the forces of evil...