23 AUGUST 1969, page 8

Prison-soviet Style

New house of the dead TIBOR SZAMUELY Prisons are news. International com- missions investigate them; teams of report- ers calculate the exact number of political prisoners held......

France

The pursuit of happiness MARC ULLMANN Paris—Anyone still suffering from the illu- sion that there is little to choose between President Pompidou and his predecessor ought to......