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...diversity of opinion expressed in foreign broadcasts provides the most credible source for news about their own country as well as the world. Regular listeners are kept informed about U.S. urban strife and protests against the war in Viet Nam, for example, and the BBC led off a roundup of editorial comment two weeks ago with the disarmingly frank observation that "most politicians must agree that we are in an unholy mess...
Departing Elite. Hanging over everyone is the question of whether and when the Soviets will begin mass arrests. Czechoslovaks remember all too well that in Hungary the roundup of dissidents did not begin until three months after the 1956 uprising was crushed, and did not peak until six months after the event. Fearing that possibility, some 600 scientists have left the country, and last week an airlift began bringing the first Czechoslovak refugees from Vienna to the U.S. They are mostly from Czechoslovakia's intellectual elite. A factory hand summed up the prevailing bitter mood of those Czechoslovaks...
...month wave of protests, many dissidents had exposed themselves to view while the KGB waited and watched. In April the roundup began. Several hundred protesters were pulled...
...range quite like Harold L. Oppenheimer, 47, head of the U.S.'s biggest cattle management firm. By his definition, "ranching is the nearest thing in business to a military operation. You deal with large amounts of terrain, large-scale logistics. On the battlefield as in a roundup, success depends on timing, men, and movement...
...week," he declares, "I'd rather have a Marine officer handling a roundup than a farmer." He is just as tough with his clients. Those who visit Oak Hill, Oppenheimer's 600-acre spread outside Kansas City, are usually invited to jump, crawl and clamber through an obstacle course not unlike the one at the Marine training base at Quantico...