EAST-WEST: Dead Dove

Like all Communist functionaries who fail the party, Moscow's seductive Dove of Peace was liquidated last week, or at the very least transferred to an obscure post. His place in the forefront of Communist world politics was taken by a frankly swooping bird of prey.

In the carefully planned wave of rioting that swept Paris, in the threat of a new Battle for Berlin, in the bloody clash of police and students armed with nail-studded clubs, spears, rocks and sulphuric-acid bombs that marked Memorial Day in Tokyo, there was no sly attempt to seduce the susceptible. Moscow had...

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