Britain: Shabby Decision

Few things can arouse the British as quickly as the opportunity to espouse an underdog's cause. Last week, as the crowded letters columns of the London dailies indicated, many Britons had found just such an opportunity. The object of their concern was Rudi Dutschke, 30, once the wildest of West Germany's radical student leaders. Two years ago, after a right-wing assassin in West Berlin shot him twice in the head, Dutschke came to Britain to recover. He was admitted by the Labor government on the specific condition that he would refrain from any political activity.

Dutschke was too sick to...

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