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...Leonid Brezhnev and Aleksei Kosygin were not embarked upon a campaign of selective repression against intellectual dissidents. In the wake of arrests and harassment of outstanding writers, scientists and civil libertarians, some Russians fear, the more favorable official view of Stalin will lessen the pressures on the government to refrain from the harsh practices that so severely scarred his 27-year rule of Russia...
...Familiar Refrain...
...that's not the whole problem. Any move we make against them brings 300,000 Palestinian refugees out of their camps and down on our necks. Most of them are armed, and we cannot cope with them and with the commandos." That was becoming a sadly familiar refrain in the tormented Middle East...
DESPITE such verbal battles, the two caucuses held together in one Harvard SDS during 1968-69, and the combination was potent. WSA-PL provided good organizers- "I don't like PL's ideas but their tactics are usually the best" was a refrain commonly muttered by SDS members at mass meetings. The New Left caucus, on the other hand, possessed more charismatic leaders like Michael Ansara '68, and a looser ideology more attractive to non-SDS students...
...were as eager as the blind to take advantage of this opportunity. In San Francisco, most of the show's 45,500 visitors could see, and after a few days, when the patina on the bronzes started wearing off, museum officials had to ask those with sight to refrain from touching. "There's a big difference between the way blind and sighted people touch things," said one museum official. "The hands of the blind come down gently and slowly, like butterflies, while sighted people plunk their hands onto an object...