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Partly Line. Under severe pressure from the Soviet-supported conservatives, Husak has dismantled the last vestiges of Dubček's promising "Springtime of Freedom." The press, which was free and sassy for a few heady months in 1968, once again is tightly controlled. The journalists whose daring reporting helped fuel the Czechoslovaks' demands for reform have either been sacked or effectively muzzled. Radio and television now echo only the party line. The student union, the stronghold of the reformist youth, has been disbanded...
Baron Olivier Guichard, 48, Education Minister, was repeatedly passed over in De Gaulle's Cabinet appointments. Originally a protégé of Pompidou, Guichard was hired away by De Gaulle as a press and political aide, then rehired by Pompidou in 1962. Guichard gained an enviable knowledge of France's political geography while in charge of decentralizing French industry. A lawyer by training, Guichard has no particular expertise in education but has promised to carry on the reforms begun by outgoing Minister Edgar Faure. More important, Pompidou, a former classics teacher, has definite ideas on education...
Died. Westbrook Pegler, 74, newspaper columnist and for nearly 30 years wielder of U.S. journalism's most malevolent pen (see THE PRESS...
...from Sports. Born in Minneapolis, the son of a British-born newsman, Pegler dropped out of high school and landed a $10-a-week job as a United Press office boy at the age of 16. After World War I naval service, he turned to sportswriting, first for United Press, then for the Chicago Tribune. His flair for words made him a success. By 1929, he was earning $25,000 a year. In 1933, Scripps-Howard enticed him to write a more general column, and a dozen years later he shifted to Hearst's King Features Syndicate, where...
Chances for a Deal. The Nixon Administration has committed itself so deeply to textile quotas, however, that the issue has become a test of its credibility. During his campaign, Nixon promised Southern voters that he would press for quotas, and now many businessmen believe that he owes them some import protection. The Administration has threatened to take unilateral action if it cannot persuade Japan and other trading partners to accept "voluntary" quotas. U.S. action could involve the revoking of textile-tariff concessions that have been granted in the past, or Congress could legislate quotas. Either way, a worldwide trade...