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Free Speech, Feelthy Speech backlash: Freshman applications at U. of Cal. (Berkeley) are down 21 per cent from a year ago. . . . Among the pacifists who signed Washington Post ad saying they will not pay income taxes while the Vietnam war is on, a couple of dozen turn out not to have made enough last year to be liable for any tax. . . . Stopped cold: in its tracks, by Wilbur Mills, the Administration’s proposed bill to ease trade restrictions with Soviet Union, East European satellites. Mills, head of powerful House Ways and Means, says his Committee won’t even hold hearings on the measure. . . . Suggestions that a $100-a-head tax be imposed on U. S. tourists as way of discouraging foreign travel again heard in the capital, but sotto voce: it’s regarded as political dynamite.

Dr. Hastings Banda of Malawi—regarded as firebrand before Malawi ’ s independence—emerging as one of more moderate African leaders. Banda opposes use of force against Rhodesia. “He who urges force,” he says, “is no friend of Africa. ” Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia—regarded as a moderate before independence —-now calling for bloody suppression of Rhodesian independence. “Blood has got to be spilled, ” he says. “It is the foundation of any freedom movement that is successful.” . . . According to Al Ahram, the semi-official Egyptian paper, Egypt was on verge of invading Saudi Arabia last fall as only way of halting military supplies reaching royalists in Yemen. . . . After three years of independence 70 per cent of Algeria’s able-bodied men are unemployed, and another 10 per cent, says Finance Minister Kaid Ahmed, work only 50 days a year.

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Free Speech, Feelthy Speech backlash: Freshman applications at U. of Cal. (Berkeley) are down 21 per cent from a year ago. . . . Among the pacifists who signed Washington Post ad saying they will not pay income taxes while the Vietnam war is on, a couple of dozen turn out not to have made enough last year to be liable for any tax. . . . Stopped cold: in its tracks, by Wilbur Mills, the Administration’s proposed bill to ease trade restrictions with Soviet Union, East European satellites. Mills, head of powerful House Ways and Means, says his Committee won’t even hold hearings on the measure. . . . Suggestions that a $100-a-head tax be imposed on U. S. tourists as way of discouraging foreign travel again heard in the capital, but sotto voce: it’s regarded as political dynamite.

Dr. Hastings Banda of Malawi—regarded as firebrand before Malawi ’ s independence—emerging as one of more moderate African leaders. Banda opposes use of force against Rhodesia. “He who urges force,” he says, “is no friend of Africa. ” Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia—regarded as a moderate before independence —-now calling for bloody suppression of Rhodesian independence. “Blood has got to be spilled, ” he says. “It is the foundation of any freedom movement that is successful.” . . . According to Al Ahram, the semi-official Egyptian paper, Egypt was on verge of invading Saudi Arabia last fall as only way of halting military supplies reaching royalists in Yemen. . . . After three years of independence 70 per cent of Algeria’s able-bodied men are unemployed, and another 10 per cent, says Finance Minister Kaid Ahmed, work only 50 days a year.