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...classes, carrying out a busing program developed during the summer by Harold Collins, the aggressive superintendent of Mobile's board of education, and various community groups. In Nashville, Tenn., Casey Jenkins, a recently defeated mayoralty candidate, told a crowd of 20,000 at an antibusing rally that "Communism is creeping into the city." He urged parents to write their representatives asking for an end to busing. School has, nonetheless, opened smoothly...
European business leaders strongly disagree. They have long pointed out that the current U.S. balance of payments deficit is much more directly a result of the Viet Nam War than of the long struggle to contain Communism in Europe. In addition, they note, part of the dollar outflow was caused by U.S. inflation, which made it more profitable for American businessmen and bankers to invest in European projects than in opportunities at home. "Nixon's campaign is not so much economic as patriotic," says the chairman of a large Belgian bank. "Patriotism and clarity of thought are almost always...
...stupefying contrasts, an earthy and unschooled Ukrainian peasant who came to wield power undreamt of by the czars. He was a custodian of the nuclear peace, yet he frequently rattled the Soviet saber, once bellowing that Communism would "bury" America. He served the party and the government with an iron hand, and in the 1930s helped send thousands to slave labor camps. Despite that, he is remembered as the crucial transitional figure who led the Soviet Union from an evil era of Stalinist tyranny toward a more moderate form of Communism. Near the end of his life, in the controversial...
...economy and agriculture. To most Westerners, too, his record is mixed. A shrewd man who carefully preserved his peasant touch, an unabashed ham who pounded his shoe on a desk at the United Nations in 1960, he was the first Soviet ruler to admit a touch of humanism into Communism, and a leading proponent of peaceful coexistence between East and West. But he knew how to use power and often did so ruthlessly, as in his attacks on Boris Pasternak after the publication of Doctor Zhivago, and his brutal suppression of rebellious Hungary...
...government gave no reason for its decision, but there seemed no lack of possible causes. One theory had it that Premier Fidel Castro had got rid of all the opponents he wanted to see depart. Another was that the Soviet Union was displeased with the exodus because it gave Communism a black eye. Cuba might also have been concerned that the airlift was creating a "brain drain" of skilled and professional workers. But a more immediately compelling theory centered around the fact that four Cuban athletes had defected during the recent Pan-American Games in Cali, Colombia, a defection that...