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...revolution is never going to be won during the course of a double-feature in a Cambridge movie house. To a large extent, my presence there means that, for me, the revolution never will be won at all. But at least I can claim for myself the partial victory that lies in honesty. I can refuse to applaud Soldier Blue and, by so doing, refuse to applaud my impotent understanding of the need for revolution. For the killing doesn't stop with Nelson's final reel. It continues and it would be criminal for me to pretend otherwise...
...Soviet Jews, world opinion offers partial protection at best. The recent worldwide outcry against the Kremlin's treatment of its Jewish citizens undoubtedly had an impact-the death sentences meted out to two Jews in Leningrad were commuted and a second round of trials of Jews was postponed. Even so, foreign opinion can accomplish only so much. The problem is that Soviet Jews can do even less-unless they are willing to take grave risks. That point was dramatically illustrated last week when Amsterdam's daily De Telcgraaf arranged to telephone, in a still undisclosed manner, a Jewish...
...wellbeing. "He doesn't look upon it as a burden," says one White House insider. "He's very content with what he's doing, despite the pressures." If Nixon is looking a bit better now than he did when he took office, he offers at least partial refutation of the myth that the presidency is a man-killing job. As Lyndon Johnson used to observe, the presidency, despite all its responsibilities, also means that the man need never wait in line at airports, get snarled in traffic or suffer the thousand other minor outrages that age mortals...
Both sides interpreted the confrontation and its aftermath as partial victories. "The purpose was to help build a campaign that would lead to mass action to close down the center," said Ira Helfand '71. "In this sense, I think it's been a success...
...confrontation resulted in a partial, though temporary, victory for Cunningham. Movers returned his furniture to the apartment, but police proceeded to arrest him and seven sympathizers on charges of assault and battery on a policeman and rude and disorderly conduct...