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Careful Turnaround. The demonstrations began in the eastern-border province of Svay Rieng, long a vital refitting and recuperation base for Communist troops operating in South Viet Nam. Three days later, they spread to the capital as thousands of placard-carrying, student-age protesters attacked the North Vietnamese embassy, tossing furniture through doors and windows, and setting fire to several official cars. At the Viet Cong embassy, windows were smashed, doors were torn from their hinges, and the lawn was strewn with debris. The demonstrations continued for three more days, spreading to Vietnamese-owned businesses...
...produce the mendacious explanation that will link the tragic event to the worldwide Communist conspiracy. Scarcely has this problem been resolved when another arises. The President's troublesome liberal-minded wife is stabbed to death with the headless golf shaft that held a "Make Love, not War" placard. With the election only six weeks away, the President (Peter Bonerz) has no time for grief and after another Cabinet conclave the cause of death proves to be Communist food poisoning. That's about all the plot there is, except for numbingly bathetic side trips to dying soldiers...
...Placard-carrying "militant" Untouchables have not yet appeared on the streets of Delhi, but the harijan case is being made more and more vocally by the small harijan bloc in Parliament, by a few enlightened caste Hindus-and by the Communists. As Gandhi warned, if love and legislation do not overcome Untouchability, the only alternative may be bloody revolution...
...often New Leftese turns out to be a jeer trying to do the work of a jeremiad. The New Left prides itself on having, in Oglesby's words, "restored the possibility of ideological thought." But New Leftese mostly favors ideas that can be daubed on a placard. American radicalism is in danger of making itself voluble without making itself articulate...
...devious-looking character whispered in the cars of pedestrians waiting at crosswalks, selling what a placard said were "dynamite trips" at "a dollar a hit." and an enterprising artist with a scratch pad offered instant crayon masterpieces of Cambridge scenes at discount rates...