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These beatings and shootings, which sent a shudder of shock and disgust through all India last week, took place in the steamy, waterlogged southwestern state of Kerala, the Indian state under the rule of an elected Communist government. Trouble started in a series of scuffles between students and police in the coastal district of Alleppey over the restoration of a one-anna (2?) student fare on the ferryboats. In the days that followed, hundreds of students, also protesting against higher tuitions and Communist textbooks in the schools, were hustled off to jail, and some were beaten senseless. Then political demonstrators...
...revolt-that the strikers and students were being misled by agents provocateurs. The Communist weekly tabloid Blitz haltingly explained away police bru tality in Kerala by claiming that the police were "trained in a tradition of unbridled repression, of which Communists were the main target during the former feudal rule," and had not got over their old ways. The Central Secretariat of the Communist Party issued a 1,200-word resolution which concluded that the shooting down of the strikers at Quilon was "an unfortunate incident," and hinted that if things worsened, there would be a demand for Communist Namboodiripad...
...Iraq's new revolutionary government settled down to consolidate its rule, one of its first efforts was to erase the memory of the bloody regicide that brought it to power...
Venezuela came alarmingly close to mob rule last week as ambitious leftist politicians dreamed up an army plot and then loudly put it down with windy proclamations, mass rallies and a general strike. Through three days of crisis, the booming Communist Party played a talented leading role. But conservative military leaders with no plot in mind, kept their tempers down and their tanks in camp and avoided civil...
...Butler III has made it his six-day-a-week job to increase the institute's indispensability to Youngstown. He stepped up buying for the collection, launched the midsummer annual. One early move was to rescind his grandfather's rule of no smoking in the galleries, thus bring back the Buckeye Club, a group of Sunday painters who now meet regularly at the institute to criticize one another's paintings. Last year more than 40,000 Youngstowners crossed the threshold, and Butler feels that his museum is booming. Of this year's exhibition he says with...