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...like it has been triggered by last month's sentencing of four young intellectuals to terms in labor camps. Soviet writers, scientists and university teachers, who once quaked in fear of the Kremlin's displeasure, have drawn up petitions, loudly condemned the sentences and fired off a spate of letters not only to Russia's newspapers but to the Soviet Supreme Court, the Politburo and several other government agencies. In an unusually bold campaign, they have accused the Russian press and government of deceiving the people about the facts of the case and demanded a new trial...
...weeks, Cambridge police have mounted a systematic attack on Avatar. By Monday night they had arrested some 40 students and Cambridge area residents who attempted to distribute the bi-weekly magazine. Most of the sellers were charged with selling "obscene literature." Curiously, the policemen increased their harassment while a spate of court cases to decide the extent of Avatar's social disutility was still pending. Actually, given their past performances, it is unlikely that the higher courts of the Commonwealth, much less the U.S. Supreme Court, would ever bar the frank, satirical publication. Were the courts to prove so prissy...
There are 193 living species of monkeys and apes, 192 of which are covered with hair. Number 193 is the naked ape called man. Anthropologists have filled libraries with evidence that shows how far man has grown away from the ape, but in this latest of the current spate of ape books, British Zoologist Desmond Morris takes a different tack...
Skillful Drumbeating. The spate of defections gave European peace groups considerable satisfaction. Though they boast that they are now recruiting 100 deserters a month, they have until now never been able to produce more than one or two on any single occasion. U.S. Army headquarters in Heidelberg has persistently dismissed their claims, lists no more than 365 missing G.I.s since the late 1940s. In Japan, where the 36,000 American troops are regularly augmented by thousands of G.I.s on R & R (rest and recreation) from Viet Nam, pacifist and peace groups have had no better luck. Indeed, U.S. desertions worldwide...
Along with his program, Johnson initiated a spate of wide-ranging actions to implement it. "We have a target," he said, "and we are going to put all the muscle that this Government has behind the dollar." He meant it. Three teams were dispatched abroad to urge "cooperative action" from America's allies-one headed by Under Secretary of State Nicholas Katzenbach to Europe, another led by Under Secretary for Political Affairs Eugene Rostow to Asia, a third captained by Assistant Secretary for Economic Affairs Anthony Solomon to Canada. Preliminary negotiations were under way to offset the cost...