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...that Mexican presidents after World War II held unchallengable authority. Slowly in the middle sixties, however, young members of the middle class, who had grown up in a peaceful society, tired of a system which in the interests of stability left them little decision-making power. They wanted to pick their own leaders and run their own organizations. Foreseeing major disturbances unless the government opened its closed doors. Carlos Madrazo, the president of PRI in 1964, began to democratize the party by initiating primary elections. He was fired by President Diaz Ordaz who ruled over a Mexico increasingly torn...
Aberration. If he has an occasional bone to pick with Lenin, however, Medvedev has nothing but condemnation for Stalin. He sees Stalin as typical of the "unstable and dishonorable people who join a revolutionary movement and later degenerate into tyrants." Medvedev writes: "His political views were formed under the influence of Marx and Lenin, but they did not grow into convictions, into a system of Communist moral principles . . . He was only a fellow traveler of revolution." Medvedev's thesis is that Stalinism was an aberration of Communism and that the Marxist-Leninist system is still the best hope...
SINCE 1901, when the Swedish Academy chose the first recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature and bypassed Leo Tolstoy, the awards have often been surrounded by controversy. There is still a furor over last year's pick, Soviet Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn, whose works (Cancer Ward; The First Circle) expose the authoritarianism of Soviet life. Fearing that he would not be allowed back into the U.S.S.R., he has not dared travel to Stockholm to accept the award; and the Swedish embassy, fearing an adverse reaction from its Soviet hosts, refuses to stage a public ceremony for him in Moscow...
...universities see it, mobile instruction is another opportunity to serve the noncampus set-and to pick up badly needed extra income. Adelphi's fee of $246 a course is, in most cases, paid by the students' employers. To see what the money is buying, TIME's Roger Wolmuth sat in on Adelphi's Principles of Marketing class last week. His report...
Starting out at a campus concert at suburban Cerritos College, the orchestra invited the audience to pick the second half of the program from 23 classics. Among them were the Mahler First Symphony and Beethoven's Third, Fifth, Seventh and Eighth. Even though the audience was composed largely of supposedly hip students, the winners were Ravel's hoary Boléro and Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet overture...