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...Appropriately, the introduction to that edition was written by Garaudy, the Communist who has probably done more than anyone else to make the dialogue possible. Raised as a Protestant, Garaudy has been a party member for 33 years; in addition to his duties as a member of the French Politburo, he teaches philosophy at the University of Poitiers. Last year Garaudy gained enthusiastic reviews from Christian thinkers with From Anathema to Dialogue (TIME, Jan. 7), a summons to theoretical conversation that was published in the U.S. recently by Herder & Herder, a Catholic firm. A sequel to Anathema, Garaudy...
...accused of a long list of "crimes" including having "sat down to tea with Cardinal Wyszynski," the Polish primate, and having had a prolonged meeting with American Professor Zbigniew Brzezinski of Columbia University. When a group of Poland's leading artists and writers wrote letters to the Politburo demanding Kolakowski's reinstatement, 13 of the petitioners were also expelled or suspended from party membership...
...latest Hanoi war commentaries are tentatively coming to terms with that reality. One speaks of "a kind of flexible, kaleidoscopic battleground," another of eventual triumph "through the accumulation of many small victories." A Politburo member writing under the pen name of Cuu Long, meaning "nine dragons," has gone so far as to redefine Mao's Phase Three as "the phase of guerrilla warfare coupled with concentrated combat." To some well-placed Western experts, that could be translated as preparation for a retreat to the hit-and-hide tactics of the Communist guerrilla-without loss of face or too obvious...
...Politburo members. If ousting them was the aim, the revolution so far has not succeeded...
...secret police; Rankovic and his fellow conspirators were ordered to stand trial before the Yugoslav Parliament. Evidence showed that Rankovic had wire taps leading back to his home and office, so he could tune in on the boss day or night, and that his agent had once taped a Politburo meeting so secret none of the participants were even allowed to take notes...