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Wm. F. Buckley Jr.’s The Governor Listeth: A Book of Inspired Political Revelations, is coming from Putnam in March. . . . Anchor is bringing out a paperback edition of Kevin Phillips’ The Emerging Republican Majority. . . . And for the Van Heusen shirt enthusiasts: William vanden Heuvel, running for governor in New York, has penned On His Own: Robert F. Kennedy 1964-1968 (Doubleday, $7.95). . . . Attention Teddy White: R. G. Schwartzenberg, your Gallic counterpart, has just come out with La Guerre de succession (Presses Universitaires, 18 fr.), the story of Monsieur Pompidou’s victory in the Gaullist war of succession.

Old-line French Stalinist Roger Garaudy has been removed from the Central Committee of the French Communist Party for his anti-Soviet diatribe, Le Grand Tournant du Socialism (Gallimard). Long a faithful party hack, Garaudy has been likened to the late Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser: At one time or another he has defended some of the most vicious aspects of Soviet policy, including the purge trials of the Thirties and the invasion of Hungary in 1956. And Herbert Marcuse’s latest pontification, Five Lectures (Beacon, $7.50), is coming out on April Fools’ Day.

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Wm. F. Buckley Jr.’s The Governor Listeth: A Book of Inspired Political Revelations, is coming from Putnam in March. . . . Anchor is bringing out a paperback edition of Kevin Phillips’ The Emerging Republican Majority. . . . And for the Van Heusen shirt enthusiasts: William vanden Heuvel, running for governor in New York, has penned On His Own: Robert F. Kennedy 1964-1968 (Doubleday, $7.95). . . . Attention Teddy White: R. G. Schwartzenberg, your Gallic counterpart, has just come out with La Guerre de succession (Presses Universitaires, 18 fr.), the story of Monsieur Pompidou’s victory in the Gaullist war of succession.

Old-line French Stalinist Roger Garaudy has been removed from the Central Committee of the French Communist Party for his anti-Soviet diatribe, Le Grand Tournant du Socialism (Gallimard). Long a faithful party hack, Garaudy has been likened to the late Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser: At one time or another he has defended some of the most vicious aspects of Soviet policy, including the purge trials of the Thirties and the invasion of Hungary in 1956. And Herbert Marcuse’s latest pontification, Five Lectures (Beacon, $7.50), is coming out on April Fools’ Day.