Correspondents' Correspondence

...During the fall, the Tories started setting other policies...

...They all had tourist visas and made all sorts of political statements," said Miss Bye...

...Nonetheless, activists continue to flourish on most U.S...

...Barbara Bye, a 26-year-old Quaker and antiwar activist, was recently prevented from reentering Japan because of her draft counseling work with GIs...

...The state's Criminal Justice Planning Agency (CJPA) has decided to drop its plans for establishing a network of "neighborhood crime monitors" because of what agency director William W. Greeman called the "vast amount of unfortunate publicity" the plan received...

...Heath also took the wraps off his long-promised industrial relations bill, a Taft-Hartley-type proposal for government regulation of the labor unions...

...For a whole summer silence reigned at Whitehall and at Westminster, though the country faced a number of compelling and complex problems...

...This was the real reason for his surprising triumph last June...

...Michael Berger Watch Thy Neighbor Indianapolis--It seems the Republic is a little less safe these days, thanks to the trouble those pesky reporters caused in Indiana...

...Responding to a television interviewer who asked whether the plan might lead to a spy network, Greeman said, "That's what it could amount to...

...Once in power, it was generally thought, a "new Heath" would somehow emerge, and technological marvels would rain down upon us...

...That's all there was to it, Greeman said...

...The workers waited until the measure was under debate in the House of Commons, then called nationwide protest strikes...

...In an interesting bit of reasoning, a Tokyo court held that Miss Bye was not a prisoner because, of course, she was "free to leave the country at any time...

...Harvey D. Shapiro...

...Its activities were not very widely known in the state until the Federal grant was announced, but by then it had reportedly collected dossiers on some 50,000 Oklahomans (for such offenses as attending protest rallies...

...military presence, are finding themselves on the deportation lists...

...military bases in Japan...

...Although the U.S...

...Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA) for $12,000 to help support people in various Indiana communities who were "willing to report whatever they hear that might have some bearing on organized crime or any other crime...

...These citizen-agents would also help police identify and quell the false rumors which often surround civil disorders...

...Civil libertarians benefited from the agency director's bang-up public relations job...

...The only decision made was the ill-considered commitment to sell arms again to South Africa--a move opposed not only by most Britains, but by the entire Commonwealth and the U.S...

...Numerous American and other foreign residents have protested against the war and the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty, submitting petitions to embassies and marching with signs and banners declaring their political positions...

...Japanese immigration officials contend that since most of those prosecuted are in Japan on tourist, student or cultural visas, political activity is a violation of their status...

...military, which is accused of having exerted pressure on the Japanese to deactivate alien activists...

...Instead, after behaving like a ruling government while out of office, Heath's men seemed too amazed at their own victory to take charge...

...The girls complain that the same rules are not applied to their counterparts at the opposite end of the political spectrum...

...Then he admitted the project could create an atmosphere where "we might not be able to trust our neighbors for a while...

...This created the public image of a rather gray, dour, but probably competent computer-man...

...After all, if there are 50,000 suspicious people there, who knows how many might be operating in South Bend, Valparaiso, or Turkey Creek...

...Heath campaigned, however, not on his detailed policy statements, but on the one issue that he rightly thought would win the election: inflation...

...Heath is not generally reckoned a man of wit, but he certainly has the Labor Opposition rolling on their benches in helpless mirth...

...Now all this is scheduled to come to an end, for the Japanese government, in a crackdown on foreigners considered too active in politics, has ordered Annie out of the country...

...So far, neither the military nor the Japanese have bothered him, but in the past year half a dozen Americans have been forced to leave the country for pursuing their politics too vigorously...

...This Oklahoma outfit, soon to be disbanded, sought the funds to provide more "detailed analysis" of information regarding civil disorders...

...Meanwhile the Prime Minister, who was being hailed as a Strong Man by the Conservative press, has already been forced to shift field...

...John Mander Alien Activists Tokyo--Jan and Annie Eakes are, by their own description, cultural revolutionaries...

...As inflation continues unabated and unemployment steadily rises, the strong-arm image is no longer quite convincing...

...who have actively supported Japanese political groups--particularly parties on the Left--or organizations seeking to eliminate the regional U.S...

...Actions are pending against at least eight other Americans, including the Eakeses...

...A draft counseling organization with headquarters in Tokyo has been operating since early last year, and the primary organizer, an American who wishes to remain anonymous, says an average of 25 GIs a week contact the organization...

...I was a political prisoner...

...Greeman had planned to ask the U.S...

...Yet, she pointed out...

...Perhaps it was the Oklahoma figure that inspired Indiana's Greeman...

...Maybe so...

...The original legislation was blocked last year by opposition parties in the Diet, but a recently "revised" bill, supposedly more liberal, still authorizes the government to name the activities a foreigner may participate in...

...And given his many calls for "action rather than talk," the voters expected firm steps of some kind from the new Prime Minister, or at least the promise of them...

...But those, like the Eakeses...

...She had been living in a small room at Tokyo's International Airport Hotel from last October 30--when she was denied permission to return to Japan following a trip to Okinawa--to February 5. Despite several, appeals, Japanese courts ruled that she could not leave the hotel and enter the country until her original appeal was decided...

...Although Greeman later said he had been misunderstood, public outcry prompted the CJPA to drop its proposal...

...Jan, a former student body president at Sacramento State College in California, contends that all present legal systems are oppressive, "whether they are in the United States, Russia, or China...

...For more than a year, the Eakeses have been rapping with American GIs here about the Vietnam war, racism and military life, and they have joined native groups opposed to U.S...

...Moreover, with the collapse of Rolls Royce--Britain's most prestigious company -- the government announced it is actually going to nationalize the firm...

...no foreign delegates to last fall's Right-wing World Anti-Communist League conference had any trouble getting into the country...

...That, said her lawyers, could take years...

...bases in Japan and Okinawa, pressing GI demands for racial equality, better living conditions and draft counseling...

...many groups print their own "underground" newspapers...

...Three University of California coeds, who entered Japan under a special exchange program and then became involved with the local student movement, have been waiting over a year for a final ruling on their appeal to escape deportation...

...If the plan had reached Washington, it might well have received a favorable reception from LEAA, which allocates funds to state and local governments for various crime-fighting projects...

...They announced that the more profitable subsidiaries of the nationalized industries were going to be "hived off"--i.e., sold to the government's friends in private enterprise...

...But it didn't sound like Indiana's new "crime monitors" would let such niceties as freedom of expression or the right to privacy get in their way...

...Last June, LEAA awarded $18,000 to expand the Oklahoma Office of Inter-Agency Coordination...

...Despite the estimated $25-million cost of the March 1 stoppage and a threat of further walkouts, Heath said he would stand firm on the bill...

...This has set many voters wondering about all that bold talk of "hiving off...

...He now explains that the arms to be supplied South Africa are merely those pledged in the Simonstown Agreement of 1955: a flight of helicopters and some spare parts...

...As leader of the Opposition, he was forever setting up study groups to formulate policies on everything under the sun...

...An additional source of anxiety to foreigners is a controversial immigration bill, worded so vaguely that it neither denies nor guarantees them political freedom...

...It has been argued that Western foreigners are actually subject to a double-edged threat--consisting of the Japanese government and the U.S...

...Heath Agonistes London--Nine months after Edward Heath's accession, Britain is somewhat punch-drunk...

...Justice Department has charged him with draft evasion, the legal system menacing him and his wife most at the moment belongs to Japan...