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...past year has been in China. Peking seems to be less ideological and more pragmatic in foreign policy than it has been since the Chinese Revolution 26 years ago. At the end of the 1960s, China's stance toward the rest of the world was almost psychotic-withdrawn, erratic, sullen and uncooperative. Today Peking is an active, if still occasionally belligerent participant in major international conferences...
...India has been effectively silenced. Newspapers have become dull and predictable, and people seem reticent about discussing controversial matters in public. From the beginning of the emergency, much of the government's anger has been directed at the press. The other day, in discussing the BBC (which has withdrawn its correspondent from India), Mrs. Gandhi told an interviewer, "They seem to think that anything is fair if it's anti-Indian." Both the domestic and foreign press are still subject to stringent controls. Three weeks ago, the government abruptly expelled Jacques Leslie of the Los Angeles Times...
Madrid might be muted. The ambassadors of Switzerland, Britain and West Germany, who had originally been withdrawn, were all back on the job in Madrid. The French leftist daily Quotidien de Paris reflected the serious second thoughts about Europe's earlier outburst. In a front-page article, it noted: "The reprobation against Franco's excesses gives a good conscience to other nations at a time when political torture [exists] in 70 countries. Tass denounced 'Franco repressions,' but how do the Russians deal with their political opposition...
...facilities and allow only government press releases and news agency reports to be aired. But many of the soldiers who were sent to occupy the stations joined forces with the leftist broadcasters and refused to carry out the takeover order. Two days later, Pinheiro de Azevedo had the troops withdrawn and asked the networks to comply voluntarily with the censorship rules. Most of the stations agreed to tone down their antigovernment broadcasts...
...final member of the Wingfield clan is the timid, waif-like Laura, whose face is often blank, but whose eyes are as innocent and easily frightened as a deer's. In the first act, Muffie Meyers acts a Laura too withdrawn to be more than pitiful as she caresses her glass animals, but as the play wears on she wins our fuller sympathy...