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...decrees as the Red Guard demand that troops no longer pass a reviewing stand with a reactionary eyes right but adopt a properly revolutionary eyes left. The Red Guards even suggested that gold lettering be banned as crassly "capitalist." Henceforth, they ordered, all signs, inscriptions and customarily white traffic-cop batons must be rendered in red. All books not reflecting Mao-think should be burned; recordings of works by such "feudal-bourgeois-revisionist" composers as Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky must be banned. Also on the condemned list: taxicabs, toy wristwatches, sunglasses-and even happiness. A Mukden candy shop...
...have remained steady for ten years while the population has nearly doubled, that they have been able to keep up with the rising crime rate. It is, in fact, this very efficiency, brusque as it often is, that seems to bother minorities, particularly Negroes. They tend to see the cop as the symbol of white power and to blame him for most of their ills...
Mother's Plea. By week's end Scotland Yard had received and investigated more than 3,500 reports of Harry's whereabouts. They had arrested two others in connection with the cop murders, put his mother on television to ask him to give himself up. But there was still no sign of Harry...
...political prisoner. It can also order anyone too critical of its policies confined to his home for years, forbid newspapers to quote him on any subject. Backing up the laws is a tough, efficient police force, plus a military and paramilitary organization specifically trained to put down insurrection. Top cop is Justice Minister Johannes Balthazar Vorster, 50, a devout Nationalist whose background includes two years in a South African internment camp for pro-Nazi activities...
...about taste. Faced with the espionage writer's inevitable decision of choosing between Ian Fleming's rollicking escapism and John le Carre's gritty realism, Author Behn, a onetime off-Broadway producer who served for two years in the U.S. Army's counter-intelligence corps, cops out. The result is a pop horror comic about a mission to Moscow by a team of freelance operatives: a sadistic rapist, a dehumanized naval officer, a pimp, a homosexual, and a beautiful young girl who is not only an electronics genius but can tie knots in a string with...