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...number of political parties had been pared down from more than 50 to twelve (some parties have been banned by the M.F.A.), one Lisbon schoolboy aptly described the confusion of it all. "My father belongs to the Revolutionary Brigades, my mother is a Socialist, my brother is a Maoist," he said. "In a way, I'm glad I'm not old enough to vote...
...exploitation--generally fought in the past for France and the United States. Is the apparent Montagnard defection another sign of the end of Thieu, a portent of a new national Vietnamese unity that will embrace racial minorities or just a matter of different groups of tribesmen? The Guardian, a Maoist news weekly, claimed that a French reporter killed last week by Saigon police was silenced for attempting to discuss Montagnard defection to the NLF. Maybe that isn't so; in any case, other reporter haven't discussed the Montagnards much. In general, what the American papers have been best...
Most of the parties that were formed in the wake of the April revolution are still in the process of organization. Radical fringe groups, notably the Maoist Movement for the Reorganization of the Proletariat Party (M.R.P.P.), have been in the forefront of Lisbon street demonstrations, but they have not necessarily made the most impact. Sample polls last month showed the middle-of-the-road Popular Democratic Party and the conservative Center Social Democratic Party leading with 30% of the vote each; the Socialists were close behind with 25%. The leading political groups...
Utopian Jabberwocky. But it is also different in quality and meaning from things like the mixture of Utopian Milanese-Maoist Jabberwocky and toys for the very rich that the Museum of Modern Art had in its last big design show, "Italy: the New Domestic Landscape" (TIME, May 29). Tsutsumu, of course, is more interesting because it is more real. It consists of virtually anonymous objects with actual uses, free of a designer's narcissism, refined over a long time, that work. The Japanese package is no less an aspect of the country's cultural heritage than the design...
Partial Call-Up. South Africa none theless is prepared for the worst when Maoist Leader Machel comes to power in June. A partial call-up of reserves has already bolstered army strength along the 360-mile border with Mozambique...