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...submarines. He would also like to include some U.S.-based intercontinental Minuteman missiles and West Germany-based Pershing short-range missiles, both to be mix-manned. German influence would be much less than in the original MLF, a welcome feature to the anti-German left wing. The whole setup would be commanded by a vague "single authority," in which all member nations would have a veto...
Lately, some Soviet judges and lawyers, disturbed by this one-sided setup, have stirred up a strenuous debate on the procurator's prerogatives. Writing in Izvestia last week, the Soviet Union's highest judge declared that a defendant should not be presumed guilty simply because the procurator says so. "Only the court can decide in the name of the state whether a person is guilty," wrote Soviet Supreme Court President Alexander Gorkin. At least that's what it said in Izvestia...
...facilities only for outpatients; the city's general hospital has beds for only 30 acute alcoholics. As a result, Washington spends $2,000,000 a year tossing drunks in the workhouse along with thieves and gamblers; the money might better be used for a treatment center. The setup "stinks," fumes Washington Corrections Department Director Donald Clemmer. "The real alcoholic is not a criminal and should not bear the stigma of imprisonment...
Monro emphasized that he is not unhappy with the Council as it is now organized, since its members "are working hard and doing a good job." He added, however, that he thought the executive committee had done "a good job of thinking" in preparing a plan. The new setup would be "expressive of the two kinds of things the Council can do in the community," he said...
...MESS ON THE FARM. Despite his proud proclamations of expertise in agriculture (he devoted more speeches to crop yield, fertilizer and seed bulls than any 20 national leaders), Khrushchev's farm programs were disastrous. He fell for one oversimplified solution after another, kept reshuffling the administrative setup for agriculture, and dreamed of better fertilizer-all to little avail. His "virgin lands" scheme showed promise this year, thanks to a hopeful harvest, but it was too late. > "GOULASH" COMMUNISM. Most of his people cheered when he announced that Communism must first give people a decent life and then think about...