Word: communists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...forbidden. Mandel claims -and the State Department apparently agrees-that he was never fully briefed on the act's provisions. Recently, Mandel has made a careful study of the McCarran Act and claims that he is being discriminated against. The act applies to members of the Communist Party, and Mandel says: "I have never been a party member...
...visiting USIA branches, where staffers have been impressed by his enthusiasm and energy. But in some areas, his tunnel-vision partisanship has caused friction, especially since many of the 10,000 members of USIA are liberal Democrats left over from former Administrations. The widely respected information officer in one Communist country was replaced for being too much the scholarly diplomat and not enough the activist type. The editor of an intellectual journal was warned to abandon his "terrific liberal bias." Grumbled one veteran from the Democratic years: "Shakespeare wants gung-ho Kiwanis boosters in Communist countries. What we need...
Last July, Frank Shakespeare, the new director of the U.S. Information Agency, asked USIA officers stationed in Eastern Europe what sort of government they thought the people of those Communist lands would choose, had they a free choice. The overwhelming consensus of the diplomats was Dubček-style socialism. The blond, boyish-looking Shakespeare, 44, only five months on the job, was shocked. "You mean you don't think they'd choose a U.S.-style democracy?" he asked...
...gone quite far. Suspected liberals in the Czechoslovak diplomatic corps are being recalled from foreign posts to Prague, where an eye can be kept on them. Several judges have been sacked, and liberals in Communist women's organizations are being dismissed from office. Many leading journalists and broadcasters lost their jobs in the early days of the Soviet-led invasion; now the hunt is under way for the less well-known newsmen and intellectuals, who have conducted a bothersome rearguard operation against political repression...
...shadowy war between Laotian government forces and Communist Pathet Lao guerrillas, China has so far stayed clear of the actual fighting. Peking, however, has launched a different sort of invasion against its diminutive neighbor to the south-one that may prove to be every bit as troublesome. Last year some 3,000 Chinese road builders moved across the border of China's Yunnan province into northern Laos. By the time the monsoon rains began last spring, the Chinese had pushed a gravel-topped all-weather road 55 miles south as far as Muong Sai, a town on an important...