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...worth. A Taipei publisher named Lei Chen made the mistake last summer of starting an opposition party--something that is not done in America's rather tarnished bastion of democracy in the Far East. On September 4, Chang's men arrested Lei on charges of sedition, much to the dismay of Nationalist intellectuals at home and overseas. Now the trial, originally scheduled for October 15, is being pushed through this week, and no one has any serious doubts as to its outcome...
...Sound of the Pipes. Outside the Elysee, De Gaulle's pronouncements left few people laughing, were greeted even by his allies with veiled dismay and hostility. While West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer hopefully announced from an Italian vacation retreat that there must have been "wrong interpretation of some of De Gaulle's ideas." Dutch Foreign Minister Joseph Luns bluntly stated that his government regarded any scheme to dilute NATO as "intolerable." How, others asked, could De Gaulle talk of strictly national defense when nearly the entire French army was bogged down in Algeria? De Gaulle...
Funereal Chimes. Trapped in soda fountains or chrome-aluminum roadside diners and forced to listen to such uplift, elders may blink in dismay. Pop songs are now, more than ever before, tailored to the adolescents who buy them. But the gloom boom...
...Congo. "Degrading the holy office of a Christian minister," cried the Rev. Allan Walker, superintendent of Sydney's Central Methodist Mission. "I am bound to say," Melbourne's Anglican Dean Barton Babbage felt bound to say, "I regard Dean Baddeley's gambling activities with embarrassment and dismay...
...read the Education section, which had to do with speeches to various graduating classes by the heads of Harvard, M.I.T. and Princeton, and my feelings on finishing were those of dismay, disillusionment, disappointment and disgust, with a touch of nausea...