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■ Friend or foe: When Ho Chi Minh died the first non-Communist countries to send condolences were: Sweden (King Gustav), India (Prime Minister Indira Gandhi), Pakistan (President Agha Mohammad Yahya Khan) and Canada (Foreign Minister Mitchell Sharp). . . . At Berkeley, nearly five hundred students marched in procession “to mourn the passing of the Vietnamese patriot.” . . . The Communist Party U.S.A, sent its Secretary General Gus Hall to Hanoi (he didn’t go through the gesture of getting his passport validated); Chou En-lai arrived early and left early, rather than risk a run-in with Soviet premier Kosygin. . . . Absence of Mao from Red Chinese contingent that paid its respects at North Vietnamese embassy in Peking touched off new rumors that Mao himself may be seriously ill. . . . On the other hand, on anniversary of Czech invasion: fifty young East Germans demonstrated against the occupation in Leipzig, refused to disband, and were finally rounded up and removed in police squad cars. . . . In Luxembourg, on Aug. 21, demonstrators marched silently to a square in the center of the city and renamed it Jan Palach Square —in honor of the Czech student who immolated himself to protest the Soviet occupation.

■ Prediction: we’ll be hearing more and more of the brilliance, integrity, charm, nobility and ability of Sen. Harold Hughes of Iowa—he’s the nearest thing the Democrats can find to a Kennedy- type these days. Muskie, McGovern, Harris et al., just don’t seem to have it charisma-wise. . . . One thing that might reunite Illinois’ sharply divided Democratic Party (divided between Mayor Daley and Adlai HI) was death of Senator Dirksen. Now there’s a chance Democrats could take his seat in ’70— but only if they can get together. Some Illinois Democrats sorry about snide remarks that went the rounds when Daley appeared unexpectedly at leftliberal love fest at the late Adlai’s farm in Libertyville, Ill., (Sens. George McGovern and Fred Harris presiding) a week earlier. . . . Still another astronaut setting his sights on politics. James Lovell indicates interest in running against Sen. William Proxmire in Wisconsin- after the Apollo 13 moon landing. Lovell will be skipper of that flight. Other astronauts interested in politics, John Glenn, the first American to orbit the world; Frank Borman, the first man to orbit the moon.

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■ Friend or foe: When Ho Chi Minh died the first non-Communist countries to send condolences were: Sweden (King Gustav), India (Prime Minister Indira Gandhi), Pakistan (President Agha Mohammad Yahya Khan) and Canada (Foreign Minister Mitchell Sharp). . . . At Berkeley, nearly five hundred students marched in procession “to mourn the passing of the Vietnamese patriot.” . . . The Communist Party U.S.A, sent its Secretary General Gus Hall to Hanoi (he didn’t go through the gesture of getting his passport validated); Chou En-lai arrived early and left early, rather than risk a run-in with Soviet premier Kosygin. . . . Absence of Mao from Red Chinese contingent that paid its respects at North Vietnamese embassy in Peking touched off new rumors that Mao himself may be seriously ill. . . . On the other hand, on anniversary of Czech invasion: fifty young East Germans demonstrated against the occupation in Leipzig, refused to disband, and were finally rounded up and removed in police squad cars. . . . In Luxembourg, on Aug. 21, demonstrators marched silently to a square in the center of the city and renamed it Jan Palach Square —in honor of the Czech student who immolated himself to protest the Soviet occupation.

■ Prediction: we’ll be hearing more and more of the brilliance, integrity, charm, nobility and ability of Sen. Harold Hughes of Iowa—he’s the nearest thing the Democrats can find to a Kennedy- type these days. Muskie, McGovern, Harris et al., just don’t seem to have it charisma-wise. . . . One thing that might reunite Illinois’ sharply divided Democratic Party (divided between Mayor Daley and Adlai HI) was death of Senator Dirksen. Now there’s a chance Democrats could take his seat in ’70— but only if they can get together. Some Illinois Democrats sorry about snide remarks that went the rounds when Daley appeared unexpectedly at leftliberal love fest at the late Adlai’s farm in Libertyville, Ill., (Sens. George McGovern and Fred Harris presiding) a week earlier. . . . Still another astronaut setting his sights on politics. James Lovell indicates interest in running against Sen. William Proxmire in Wisconsin- after the Apollo 13 moon landing. Lovell will be skipper of that flight. Other astronauts interested in politics, John Glenn, the first American to orbit the world; Frank Borman, the first man to orbit the moon.