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...under Nazi rule in 1940-44. Interspersed among shots of Chevalier mugging and clowning were newsreels of Wehrmacht troops marching up the Champs-Elysées, the swastika fluttering on the Eiffel Tower, and German soldiers ogling nudes at the Lido nightclub. Even grimmer was the shot of the roundup of 13,000 Jews at the Velodrome d'Hiver for deportation to Nazi death camps...
...sided Accounts. The roundup was apparently a response to a recent public demand by twelve dissidents-including five religious leaders-that President Park resign. Meeting at Seoul's Myongdong Cathedral on March 1-the 57th anniversary of a Korean uprising against Japanese colonial rule-the group issued a Declaration for Saving Korea. It labeled the country "a one-man dictatorship that tramples on human rights," and recommended: "There is no other way for the Park regime but to accept responsibility by stepping down." The government's official answer was that the declaration was part of a plot...
...time for the Jim McKay 11 o'clock roundup--corral the heifers, clam, the dogies, make one last summary plea'to the jury, drive our moral home so the Baptist preachers down in Dry Prong. Louisiana don't immolate the album when we get it released...
...enemies of Spain" Franco had meant the Communists and other political parties, they were strangely quiet last week. Some were fearful of a police roundup of known dissidents or impromptu raids by right-wing hoodlums (including, possibly, off-duty cops). Others, though, were clearly waiting to see which way the King would move...
...largest democracy and second most populous nation (600 million). It was, both for Mrs. Gandhi and for India, a dangerous gamble that caught her political opposition off guard and shocked much of the rest of the world. Assuming extraordinary powers under the emergency decree, Mrs. Gandhi inaugurated a nationwide roundup of her political opponents. At week's end, the government admitted that more than 870 people had been taken into custody (some observers believe the total is far higher). None of those detained under terms of the emergency decree will be able to appeal to the courts for release...