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...they have not been able to apply even their own fake fascist constitution, their so-called democratic constitution. They haven't been able to use it; not one article of that constitution really is functioning today. The country is still under direct, arbitrary, unbridled military rule. There is no framework-they do what they want. And the reason for this is clearly their fear. But there is more than that...
Well, obviously, it's like a volcano, a silent volcano, so that it's eerie, the kind of thing that you see smiles on faces, or you see expressionless faces but it can turn like this, and it can turn when it is convinced that there is a resistance framework, that is to say it's a structure, responsible, consistent, and likely and capable of leading the fight against the colonels internally. We are trying to provide this, this is what our task is, to build this framework. This is what we're working very hard...
...with West Germany (except on conditions that Bonn cannot accept); possibly Moscow does not really want to give up West Germany as a convenient propaganda whipping boy. Significantly, the Soviets toned down their calls for a Conference on European Security that would approve present borders and set up a framework for cooperation between European nations, East and West. The Soviet lack of enthusiasm may reflect a realization in the Kremlin that the Communist countries are still not secure enough domestically to afford easier exchanges with the prosperous and magnetic West...
...about running against party candidates. Nonetheless, a better turnout is expected in next month's parliamentary elections. Kádár is by no means prepared to sanction the birth of a political opposition, but he does want to create a broader base for consultation within the framework of Communist rule...
Permissive Code. In his disciplined, balanced study, Abortion: Law, Choice and Morality (Macmillan, $14.95), Daniel Callahan strives to preserve the ideal of the sanctity of life within a permissive legal framework. Dispassionately examining all the arguments and options, the Roman Catholic intellectual and former editor of Commonweal tries to avoid what he calls "the mentality of the crusader." The problem, he argues, is priorities: the church's heart is in the right place in defending the sanctity of human life, but the bias too heavily favors fetal life alone. Yet he rejects abortion-on-request because it is based...