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Henry Kissinger used to say that there is no way that people in the White House can educate themselves after they take office. They have to deal with the day-to-day crises, and there is no energy left over to enrich their backgrounds. True, they get street-wise and more experienced in the tactics of Government, but if an Administration does not know where it wants to go before Inauguration Day, the chances are it may never find out once in power...
Thus began an improbable three-day conflict between youthful extremists who regard themselves as Marx's true heirs and Europe's largest and most innovative Communist Party. The ultras had come to Bologna from all over Italy for a weekend convention held to protest Communist "repression." They claim that the Communist Party, in its eagerness to share power with the Christian Democrats, has become a pillar of the Establishment and hates them for saying...
...bestseller in West Germany. In an extraordinary act of defiance and courage, Bahro had agreed to be interviewed on West German television, which is watched by an estimated 1 million East Berliners every day. Bahro denounced Communist leaders as "exploiters" of the working class and proposed that true Marxists should rebel against the despotic socialism of Eastern Europe by forming a new League of Communists, harking back to Karl Marx's original group of supporters in London in the 1840s...
...True to century-old form, the America's Cup races ended with the rout of the foreign boat. Australia's 4-0 defeat in the best-of-seven series off Newport, R.I., brought the U.S. record since 1958, when the New York Yacht Club revived the cup series with sleek 12-meter sloops, to 28 wins and only two losses. Senior Editor Timothy Foote joined the spectator fleet for the last race. His report...
...come at once. The first thriller, Call for the Dead, based on the German connection, and A Murder of Quality, with its Etonian background, convinced critics that Le Carré was a real writer, not a civil service dilettante. But the books sold modestly; David Cornwell clung to his true identity and his salary. Upon the publication of his third book, the novelist instructed his accountant to wire in the unlikely event that his bank account reached £20,000. At the time, Cornwell was the father of three growing boys; the magic figure was what he required to become...