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Then why're we being tailed?

For your safety! The Minister

of lnterior ordered us

to protect your committee members

from any possible extremists.

Whom you are using!

Other halls meet

the safety requirements,

like the Employees' Union Hall

opposite your hotel.

You simply cross the square!

I'm neutral in this affair!

Alright, Col.

There, on the 1st floor! Not room

for over 200 people!

We'll look stupid! In a city

of 500,000, only 200 would hear you.

The rest'll be outside.

Ask the Col. to let us hang

loudspeakers from the trees.

Permit or not, people'll be here!

We'll go now...

...and try to alert people.

Print posters

with the rally's change of address!

Manuel, come discuss my speech!

George, you too!

I'll hold on.

Hello, darling! How are you?

Fine... yes.

Problems with the hall as usual!

Why should there be any fights?

Why any fights?

Yes, tomorrow.

George sends a kiss.

Till tomorrow, darling!

The kids?

Fine, but I don't see them enough.

Helen?

We're not always eye to eye

but it's not serious.

They say a hungry bear

won't dance!

The bears are going to read that!

Your pen!

Go!

Hold your meetings in Russia!

We'd rather stay here!

Do as you're told!

Hey, you!

What's the idea!

- Never mind!

- Better than the Bolsho?

- I only came to please you.

- Your dancers are old-hat.

Except when one chooses freedom!

And the Warsaw Pact?!

We're against the bomb,

Russian or American!

Disarmament!

Long live the Bomb!

You could sell 'em

to the "Daily Worker"!

No more NATO bases!

Calm down!

No fighting! No provocation!

Ya just ease 'em away!

Ya don't push!

Leave 'em alone!

Calm down!

Don't provoke 'em!

Mr Lawyer!

Start now!

There's no more room up there!

Squeeze 'em in!

Get the speakers.

Ready?

I'll get 'em!

Go on in!

Let 'em in!

- So that's it!

- What?

The new opposition!

Women go for him!

Communist?

Never! He's anti-foreign!

Next elections, he'll win!

Good-looking!

Ex-Olympic champ, doc,

college prof and honest politician!

Perfection!

He's at the Bolsho!

- He must cancel it!

- We back down!

To avoid provoking the crowd.

The students could maintain order.

- A free-for-all!

- You and your non-violence!

We must respect the law!

The law of the jungle!

They stuck us in that hall.

It's a trap!

Set by whom?

The ClA! We want

the foreign bases to be dismantled!

You think too much!

There are some stubborn extremists...

The threats?

It's not the 1st time.

We've all taken risks.

They're all at the Bolsho!

Keep trying.

The police must face

their responsibility.

We're going to our rally.

Rotten politicians!

We'll put ya in your graves!

We'll kill ya all!

Stay outside!

- And you?

- I'm a mason.

OK, let's go.

They hit me.

Why?

Why do our ideas

provoke such violence?

Why don't they like peace?

Why don't they attack

other organisations?

The answer is simple.

The others are nationalists,

used by the government

and don't upset

our Judas allies who betray us...

General, they're getting out of hand!

I'll have the loudspeakers cut off!

It'd excite the others.

Don't do that!

Where's the Chief of Police?

I was told he's here!

Really? He must be over there!

We lack hospitals and doctors

but half the budget

goes for military expenditures.

He's the one!

A cannon is fired

and a teacher's monthly salary

goes up in smoke!

That's why they can't

bear us or our meetings

and use hired thugs

to jeer and attack us!

Around the world. too many soldiers

are ready to fire

on anything moving toward progress.

He's your guy?

- You sure?

- I think.

An Olympic champ?

Stop!

Finish him off!

Sh*t! It's not him!

- I told ya it wasn't!

- They said it was!

Take off!

I'll go around to avoid the cops.

Tomatoes out of season!

They cost a fortune!

Fix your muffler!

I can't even make

the monthly payments!

Sh*t! The cops!

But our fight is theirs too!

We live

in a weak and corrupt society

where it's every man for himself.

It's blocked off here too! Hide!

Even imagination is suspect

yet it's needed

to solve world problems.

The stockpile of A-bombs is equal

to 1 ton of dynamite

per person on earth.

Horny again?

Yeah!

They want to prevent us

from reaching

the obvious political conclusions

based on these simple truths.

But we will speak out!

We serve the people

and the people need the truth.

Send them back to the Bolsho!

The truth is the start

of powerful. united action.

Get those hoodlums out of here!

Down with the police state!

No more foreign bases!

Inspector!

Chief!

What're you waiting for?

Watch out!

Throw him off!

It's my cousin. He fell off!

By his feet!

I saw you hit him!

- What?

- What's going on?

I hit the brake

and my cousin fell off.

- He's bleeding and needs care.

- Your papers!

Just a moment...

Here they are!

He's bleeding! He needs care!

He hit him with a club!

See? It's nothing!

This is nothing?

- He tried to kill him!

- Dummy!

- My truck?

- lt'll be OK.

Call in for a patrol car.

Sure, call the station!

Stay there!

Look...

I'm goin'.

Pretend to try and stop me.

I can't explain but I gotta go!

Just play dead!

One move and I'll slug you!

What time is it?

I got a date I can't miss!

The regime can't change that!

All the Russians want

is to live like Americans!

Quick, sir, it's serious!

Come with me!

The Attorney-General!

We'll talk later.

And the ballet?

I had to miss it!

Why wasn't I told?

During the performance? How?

- What is it?

- A stupid traffic accident!

The culprit?

We'll have him soon.

- The victim?

- The hospitaI'll tell us.

I'll go there in your car.

Certainly!

Have the papers heard about it?

I doubt it.

I must call the Ministry!

Editorial room!

What on earth's wrong?

There was a demonstration.

We taught the bastards a lesson!

They hold a meeting?

Well, we can demonstrate too!

It's like a biological reaction.

Society's healthy elements,

the anti-bodies...

We beat the hell out of 'em!

What do you want from me?

Write...

...that I was there and beat 'em up!

What for?

So my pals'll know!

OK, if you want.

Get fixed up at the hospital

so they'll know

both sides were hurt!

Go now and I'll put

your name in the lead!

We warned you

but you said it was a hoax

- or a crackpot!

- Please!

This attempted killing

is your responsibility!

The police has proof

it was an accident.

Go easy! We need their help!

Such unfounded accusations!

They're blind... or worse...

accomplices!

They've no proof!

Assassination?

I was there taking pictures.

You got the truck?

No, I missed it!

The cops chased us away.

Such cynicism!

They'll use the incident politically!

- Surely!

- They know how to make martyrs!

Death-lovers!

Let's hope he doesn't die.

That would suit them!

The brain is damaged

in 2 or 3 spots. We're operating.

His heart is fighting hard

but it's too soon to say.

- But you must!

- He can't hear you.

You realise the political aspect?

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