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Kelman has since continued to promulgate his peculiar brand of conservative socialism. His second book, Behind the Berlin Wall, is an account of a two-month stay during 1971 in East Germany. Constant fear haunts our intrepid hero as he risks millenial jail terms to uncover the truth about Communism. He cleverly outwits a couple of commissars who accompany him, and returns to report that things are not good in East Germany: everything breaks all the time, there are not enough refrigerators, telephones or good razor blades--and besides, the people are not free...
...hero was scared one night, "I wanted to cry into the pillow of my bed, but there was no pillow. So I cried right onto the sheet." But after pruning the thicket of countless noble deeds, the book does contain a core of political analysis, centered around anti-Communism as its primary tenet. The Soviet betrayal of socialism is the greatest crime in history for the promoters of this brand of politics, and the Soviety offspring, the nations in what was once known as the Communist Bloc, are consequently enemies of the first magnitude. Vigilant criticism of this is necessary...
This critique of Communism usually centers around two factors: the great extent to which individual freedom is limited in these nations and their lower standards of living. Although most progressive anti-Communists place greater emphasis on the absence of personal liberty, Kelman reverses the priorities. About 80 per cent of the book's analysis is devoted to recounting the economic woes of East Germany: the food tastes horrible, slacks come in off-blue but not deep blue. The poor East Germans don't even have suntan lotion...
...ensuing decade promises to provide the opportunity for Americans to evaluate China's application of Communism first-hand. Stanley Karnow has helped lay the groundwork for future analysis of China. For those unfamiliar with Chinese history, the first 125 pages provide background data. For scholars, Karnow's massive research--completed at Harvard while he was a Nieman Fellow during 1970-71--will provide a starting point for the construction of broader theories. And for people solely interested in human interaction, the Cultural Revolution and its participants will emerge in the flesh...
...Nixon committee. The lawyers for the other defendants and the defendants themselves in and out of court offered their own implausible variety of motives: E. Howard Hunt implied that he had joined the operation because he feared that a liberal Democratic President might weaken U.S. policy toward Communism (TIME, Jan. 29); McCord had joined because he believed that the bugging might intercept some nefarious plot against the Republicans planned by a left-wing group; and the four other defendants had become involved because Hunt, their former boss during the Cuban invasion, told them it was part of the fight against...