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He concluded with an appeal to Czechoslovaks to work peacefully while remaining on alert to strike if necessary. He said students and actors still on strike probably would end their sit-ins in a day or so, but that Civic Forum would support them if they continued.
Students began the pro-democracy movement after a demonstration Nov. 17 that was put down brutally by police, and 80,000 have been on strike for a week.
The Civic Forum, and the allied Public Against Violence in Slovakia, also demanded immediate revision of the official view that the "Prague Spring" reforms of 1968 were worthless.
Fein charges that MIT Professor Noam Chomsky "has long denied the right of Israel to exist," and is "known for anti-Zionism bordering on Anti-Semitism." The first claim is dead wrong; the second is libelous. Chomsky has long called for a Palestinian state alongside Israel. This is the position...
Fein complains that Chomsky and Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi of Haifa University were not addressing their "area of expertise." What are Chomsky, a linguistics professor, and Beit-Hallahmi, a psychologist, doing talking about foreign affairs? This ad hominem reasoning would disqualify many of the leading critics of the Vietnam War, including...