Correspondents' Correspondence

...Correspondents raised aloud mostly the unanswered questions they had previously prepared in writing...

...The mammoth university with a semipermanent radical population is rare: Most British universities have only a few thousand students, Bachelors degrees require only three years' study, and a smaller percentage of graduate students is enrolled here than in American schools...

...a mass meeting, well attended at first, was reduced to a discussion group by the time the Leftists' speeches (labeled "pathetic" and "uniformly awful" by the Guardian) were over...

...But the Kosygin news conference in fact covered as many subjects as a Washington Presidential news conference—with a similar number of challenges met, a similar number ducked...

...This marked the first mention in these media of such items?brought up in the queries from Western newsmen—as the role of Soviet pilots flying for the Egyptian Air Force, the presence of North Vietnamese forces in Cambodia years prior to the American incursion, and the speculation about a succession crisis in the Soviet hierarchy...

...Still, Brandt has been more conciliatory than previous West German leaders...

...their reluctance to become involved in university revolts, though, makes it extremely difficult for deans and rectors to plan a response in the event things truly get out of hand...

...by the time one acquires political skills one has received a degree...

...For even after 25 years, there is hardly a household among Israelis of European origin?who constitute one half the total population—that did not lose a close relative in the Nazi extermination...

...In any one of them there is the danger that his Social Democratic party's coalition partners, the liberal Free Democrats, will fail to muster 5 per cent of the cumulative vote and thus be legally denied even a single state seat...

...In another quarter hour the press and Kosygin both ran out of steam, and the meeting came to an end...

...So this is hardly the time for free-swinging action on as emotional a problem as relations between the two Germanies...

...It is not coincidental that lse, with a history of student unrest, has a high proportion—about 50 per cent—of graduate students...

...No West German Chancellor could go along with such demands, and least of all Brandt...

...One American studying in London said of his British friends, "How can they possibly be as mad about what Harold Wilson says as we are about what Nixon does...

...Yet revolutionaries are not the only ones on British campuses working at a disadvantage...

...In Britain, when the uproar is confined to university grounds, causing no danger or disturbance to the public at large, it can be as difficult to get the police in as it is to keep them out in America.—Elliott Abrams Kosygin's Show Moscow—Premier Aleksei Ko-sygin's news conference last month, the first he has ever held in his own capital city, reminded some former Washington hands here of their hectic old days covering Lyndon Johnson...

...The implication is plain: The Communists came here determined that the talks, if not broken off, should at least be frozen for the next few months...

...After Kosygin read a prepared statement for 15 minutes and answered some of the hurriedly submitted written questions for another 15 minutes, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, acting as master of ceremonies, announced that the remaining questions duplicated those already taken up...

...The East German leaders presumably feel more secure having no contacts with the West than they do negotiating for better relations that could inspire dangerous opinions among their citizens...

...The Socialist Society, leader of past protests, was split over the tactics...

...But is the Kremlin willing to pay the price of breaking news of the real world to its own people...

...Memorial rallies and synagogue services are held throughout the land, and in hundreds of thousands of homes the traditional candle is lit for the soul of the departed...

...Nobody seemed to remember that the chemical used by the Nazis in their gas chambers to murder most of their 6 million Jewish victims was also called Cyklon.—S...

...A small but noisy group prevented Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart from speaking to the Oxford Union, and a bit of shouting silenced the invited speakers at the London School of Economics' Oration Day, but no major disturbances have occurred...

...Interestingly, much of the extremist leadership at lse has come from its large contingent of American students...

...At lse, for example, the "occupation" called for in the early spring simply faded away...

...Among the "20 points" he presented Stoph for the "contractual regulation" of German affairs were Bonn's disavowal of its right to speak for the whole nation until free elections are held in the East, a repudiation of force, and guarantees to respect the East German borders...

...That was not so, but we assumed it meant the conference was over...

...As they filed out, reporters inevitably thought of additional points they could have raised...

...Naturally, the Moscow press corps hopes the Premier will decide upon repeat performances...

...Consequently, there is a more rapid turnover in radical leadership than in the U. S...

...British Campus Scene London—It has been a quiet year for British universities...

...are not as profound a measure of popular sentiment as 600 East Germans in Erfurt shouting "Willy Brandt...

...While American administrators can count on police support if they believe it necessary, their counterparts here cannot...

...Then Gromyko unexpectedly invited questions from the floor...

...West German officials held out some hope for a continuation of the technical talks on postal service and inter-German traffic, but the East Berlin spokesman said this was not a point for discussion at the present time...

...the student union president called the entire idea "stupid...

...Most observers believe the East German stance at Kassel indicates a return to the isolationist policy pursued prior to last year's initiative for the talks...

...The package must have been a tempting one to moderates in the East German leadership...

...For they know better than anyone that 6,000 West German Communists roaring "Long Live Stoph...

...Of course, the domestic strife and foreign war which fuel U. S. campus protests are missing here...

...Although held largely for international propaganda purposes, the press conference was also carried live on Soviet radio and television, and the transcript appeared in Pravda...

...In other words, it ignored the very concessions Brandt had just made...

...The relative calm may in part be due to the greater finesse administrators here have gained through painful experience...

...As matters stand now, they cannot be resumed until Brandt accepts all the demands of the East...

...a more probable explanation, however, is the dissension and ineptitude marking the student radical movement...

...Donald R. Sha-nor Fading Memories Tel Aviv—Each year in Israel, the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising is commemorated as the Day of Holocaust and Heroism...

...This year the anniversary fell on May 3 (corresponding with the 27th day of the Jewish month of Nisan), and inadvertently underscored how even the cruelest memories begin to fade: A brief item in the press reported the establishment of a new company to manufacture equipment and insecticides for crop-dusting planes, under the trade name of Cyklon...

...But it was evident from the start that their delegation at Kassel had no intention of accepting or even discussing it...

...Organizing a student revolution in the United Kingdom is no easy task...

...Stoph's reply to Brandt?written, translated and mimeographed for the press long before the East Germans arrived—bristled with such terms as "juristic aggression" and "revanchist threat against our borders...

...The East German Prime Minister insisted that Bonn grant the German Democratic Republic full diplomatic recognition and renounce its economic, legal and cultural ties to West Berlin...

...With only a paper-thin majority in Parliament, his government faces a series of key state elections June 14...

...Indeed, the reduced role of the United Kingdom on the international scene may account for the fact that British students are far less passionate about politics than young people in the United States...

...That the bobbies are better disciplined and less inclined to violence than American police is universally appreciated...

...Announcement of the conference came only three hours before it was to be held, sending the approximately 350 members of the foreign press corps rushing to the Hall of Receptions, located on a hilltop overlooking the Moscow River...

...They might like answers not only to questions about Indochina, but also about the availability of fruits and vegetables, and the guns-to-butter ratio here?Irwin M. Chapman German Summitry Kassel—The second German summit meeting held here last month failed because West German Chancellor Willy Brandt clearly could not accept what he called the "all or nothing" position of Willi Stoph...

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