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Most of Sontag's other colleagues, however, responded with a barrage of criticism, much of it published in the Nation, the Village Voice and the Soho News. Many argued that American socialists, including Sontag, have long criticized the Soviet Union as a perversion of Marxism, and need not feel guilty about Moscow's continued transgressions. Wrote Socialist Organizer Ralph Schoenman, who put together the rally: "What was particularly unnerving to those who have known Sontag well, and who have been involved with her in past efforts to defend those under attack in 'Communist' states...
Declared Brezhnev, toasting his visitors at a formal banquet in the Great Kremlin Palace: "We helped socialist Poland the best we could, and we shall continue helping it." In his reply, Jaruzelski called the Soviet Union "our chief, invaluable economic partner and our closest ally." Both sides blamed Western economic sanctions and propaganda for exacerbating Poland's crisis...
Martens' aim is to bring Belgium's high labor costs and overly protective practices into line with those of other European countries. Surprisingly, the nation's aggressive unions reacted with restraint. "Devaluation is a fact," said Georges Debunne, secretary-general of the Socialist-led Federation Generate du Travail de Belgique. "We must do everything to make it succeed...
...economic war" against his country. He charged that "psychological warfare services," presumably meaning Radio Free Europe, originated the widespread resistance slogan, "The winter is yours, the spring will be ours." Said he: "The spring will be neither 'ours' nor 'yours,' but simply Polish and socialist." The general blamed U.S. sanctions for aggravating food shortages by suspending poultry feed shipments and excluding Polish fishing fleets from American waters. Although the Central Committee had little to offer in the way of economic solutions, the nalion's parliament met at week's end and passed eight bills...
...death of the American, Charles Horman, is fact, certainly. A bright, left-leaning freelance writer and documentary film maker, Horman, together with his wife Joyce, moved to Santiago, Chile, in 1972, eager to watch the development of the new Socialist regime of President Salvador Allende. Horman was visiting the seaside resort of Vina del Mar with another American woman, Terry Simon, when Allende was overthrown by a military coup on Sept. 11,1973. According to a journal they kept at the time, Horman and Simon saw and spoke to several U.S. military officials in Vina who strongly hinted that...