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...would next like to correct a certain statement in the editorial. Mr. Emmerich wrote that "The lack of (student) opinions can be largely attributed to the fact that campus reporters are barred from the CUE and ERG meetings..." In the thirteen months since I was first elected to ERG, there has been only one meeting closed to the public, the meeting of February 11, 1978 during which the Core Curriculum report was discussed. ERG meetings are not closed to the press; in fact, explicit invitations to these meetings have been extended to both The Crimson and The Independent on numerous...
Last week the plot blew up in the KGB's face. Thirteen Russians, most of them diplomats in Ottawa, were unmasked as spies and banned from Canada. It was clear, moreover, that from the start it was the Mounties who had been fielding the classic textbook operation: a sting by a double agent. The KGB appeared so deceived by the Mounties' ruse that one astounded Canadian official said, "One wonders-do they assign their better people here? They seem to have been incredibly crude, gauche and maladroit...
...Thirteen years later, the critic George Steiner countered: "Kafka's nightmare-vision may well have derived from private hurt and neurosis. But that does not diminish its uncanny relevance." As Steiner elaborated, Kafka "was, in a literal sense, a prophet . . . He saw, to the point of exact detail, the horror gathering. The Trial exhibits the classic model of the terror state. It prefigures the furtive sadism, the hysteria which totalitarianism insinuates into private and sexual life, the faceless boredom of the killers. Since Kafka wrote, the night knock has come on innumerable doors...
Besides, the main reason for even bothering to pass the Controlled Substances Act in the first place was to keep drugs out of the hand of those who might abuse them. This goal has obviously not been met: over twenty million Americans have tried marijuana, and thirteen million use it regularly. It is not likely that legalizing marijuana as a prescription drug would result in any significant increase in use among non-patients; those who want it now do not have much trouble obtaining...
...riots, lootings, assassinations, kidnapings and bombings that has thoroughly unnerved Italians and turned the streets of many of their historic cities into battlefields. The death of three young neo-Fascists last week brought to 34 the number of politically motivated killings in Italy since January 1975. The total includes thirteen known or presumed extreme left-wing activists and seven neo-Fascists killed in clashes during demonstrations, in single assassinations and in raids on party offices. The others: five innocent bystanders caught in the crossfire of fierce street fighting, four police officers, two magistrates who were presiding over the trials...