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Periodically, the Emperor and Empress receive their five surviving children (two daughters are dead) and ten grandchildren. Rigid court protocol requires that the receptions be held separately. The two sons and daughter of Crown Prince Akihito and Princess Michiko are royal. The seven children who belong to the Emperor's three daughters cannot be received at the same time because they are considered commoners; their mothers married commoners and thereby lost royal status...
...Czechoslovakia's experiment in "Communism with a human face"-which was also ended by Soviet intervention. By trying to loosen the bureaucratic and ideological straitjacket that Stalinism had wrapped around the entire Communist world, Khrushchev helped to widen the Sino-Soviet split. The Chinese were-and remain-rigid dogmatists who are unlikely to forgive him even in death for his "revisionist" heresy. When French Maoist Regis Bergeron heard that Khrushchev had died, for example, he exulted: "Good! Another revisionist less. Unfortunately, Khrushchevism does not die with him." A large number of Nikita Khrushchev's experiments ended in failure...
...instructors want a greater voice in planning the school curriculum.* They also object to the productivity-minded company's plan to install a time clock. As it is, the instructors work a rigid eight-hour schedule in 38 identical soundproofed cubicles, turning out penciled marginal comments and lengthy typewritten critiques on six or seven student assignments a day. "We want to be treated like professionals and less like production-line workers," argues Harmon Strauss, a former Radio Free Europe writer who is Local 427's shop steward...
Government Weapons. Opposition candidates in South Viet Nam must wage uphill battles that would dishearten the most determined American politician. The government not only controls television and radio, but its rigid press laws stifle antigovernment stories in newspapers and discourage favorable stories about opposition candidates. The army provides transportation and other services for government candidates, but none for the challengers...
Taipei is also becoming less rigid about the conditions under which it would remain in the U.N. The regime now says that it will stay in the U.N. in order to "fight the Communists" if Peking is voted in. There is also talk in Taipei of staying on even if the Communists actually come to New York to occupy a seat. What if Taipei were voted out of its seat on the Security Council, as is almost certain, and could hope for no more than a seat in the Assembly? Despite U.S. prodding, Taipei has yet to provide a clear...