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...Peking's Great Hall of the People snaked line after line of restless Red Guards, still in the capital despite earlier orders to repair to their homes. The Great Hall is usually reserved for formal occasions: anti-imperialist operas, speeches by visiting Albanian dignitaries and the annual rubber-stamp session of the Chinese Parliament. As 10,000 Red Guards stared up at a triple-tiered ceiling studded with stars, Premier Chou En-lai appeared onstage. What ensued last week was the stiffest rebuke that the Guards have received to date-and an indication that China's Great Proletarian...
...rubber-stamp marks in his passbook. He needs one stamp to hold his job, another to maintain "temporary residence" in his African township, still others to allow his wife and children to live with him. If he loses his job, he must apply to the police for a stamped permit to seek work. If he wants to visit relatives in another city, he needs a stamp before he can get on the train. The government can cancel any of his stamps at any time for any reason, move him far away from his home, job and family. Above...
...long ago, Tito called a plenum and delivered a blistering rebuke to those "who have worked in a way contrary to the implementation of reform." The old-liners are under pressure from a different direction: Tito is encouraging the 8,000,000-member Socialist Alliance, once a rubber-stamp popular front, to stand in local elections against his ruling League of Yugoslav Communists Party. Though still under the League's wing, the Alliance will force League candidates to "openly debate issues," make it more difficult for the old-liners to hide in the woodwork of the bureaucracy. Tito...
...ministries are again likely to be more or less evenly divided along party lines, Klaus will probably pry Socialist Christian Broda out of the Justice Ministry, which has become a stumbling block for red-black cooperation. Furthermore, Klaus hopes to revitalize Parliament, which had become little more than a rubber-stamp assembly, receiving bills only after the Cabinet had put them in all but final shape. With a majority of his own, Klaus intends to use Parliament to shape his legislative program. Tops on his list: a speedup of negotiations for Austria's associate membership in the Common Market...
...policy. He bitterly condemned the fired professors for "unprofessional conduct," and for issuing "libelous and slanderous statements" about St. John's. He also pointed out, sensibly enough, that it is the job of the administration to run a university, and that no board of trustees can simply rubber-stamp anything a faculty demands. There is academic freedom at St. John's, he insisted, and it is necessary. But, he added, "freedom without responsibility becomes license...