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...short and bitter for Stephen H. Elliott '71. A one day trial in Concord last week. A plea of guilty. And a sentence the next day of five years in a Federal prison...
...mitigation of Gaullist diplomatic arrogance are in sight. In fact, under the chauvinistic new Foreign Minister Michel Debre, French abrasiveness may well increase. The chances for Britain to get into the Common Market are as remote as ever. Nor is there any likelihood that France will heed the plea of Common Market President Jean Rey to abandon the right to veto major proposals and to give the Market's supranational agencies more power to regulate trade. As Common Market Vice President Sicco Mansholt declared: "The Gaullist victory means an important delay in the political progress of Europe...
...witness stand in Bonn's criminal court sat the Chancellor of West Germany, Kurt Georg Kiesinger. He had been subpoenaed to testify in the war crimes trial of a former diplomat who was charged with arranging transportation for 11,343 Bulgarian Jews to German death camps. The defense plea was a familiar one for postwar Germany: the defendant had not known what was happening in those camps. Defense lawyers summoned Kiesinger on the grounds that if he, as acting chief of the Foreign Ministry's radio-propaganda section at the time, did not know about the camps, then...
Moscow's move caught U.S. policymakers by surprise, although Lyndon Johnson and Special Assistant Walt Rostow made no effort to conceal their glee. For 17 months, the Russians had rebuffed every U.S. overture, including Johnson's disarmament plea at the United Nations three weeks ago. Then, in an address to the Supreme Soviet last week, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko declared that Moscow was "ready for an exchange of opinion" on the missile issue. Said Gromyko: "The current revolutionary epoch is doing away with the traditional concepts of strength." Stripped of Marxist-Leninist bafflegab, Gromyko's speech presumably...
Last week Biennale artists and revolution-minded students from Madrid, Paris and other points began deplaning in Venice. The students called on the artists to refuse to let their work be shown. In a few cases, they added threats to destroy work on display but surprisingly often the plea alone fell on sympathetic ears. For years, the Biennale has been about as popular as the only roulette wheel in town. Italians complain that the bureaucrats who administer it, under a Fascist law originally enacted in 1927, discriminate against Italian artists whom they dislike. Foreigners gripe about the oversize Italian pavilion...