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Said Ecevit: "There has been ample freedom in Turkey for 50 years. Those who oppose the regime here hanker for an authoritarian regime, whether of the right or the left. Because our people are attached to democracy [the extremists] cannot get support...
Dean Archie Epps' touch in these matters is usually masterful, which makes it particularly sad to see him misled in this instance. It is always better, I suggest, to trust the principle of free speech, perplexing though it is, than to hanker after the phony comfort of bureaucratic manipulation. The black critics of the Lampoon should simply be advised by the Dean of Students to grow up. Martin Kilson Professor of Government
...midweek, though, Northerners had elected a new moderator known to hanker strongly for union: the Rev. Robert C. Lamar, 52, a pastor from Albany, N.Y., who has co-chaired the Joint Committee on Presbyterian Union since 1969. As for the Southerners, they elected Dr. Lawrence W. Bottoms, 66, the first black man ever to become moderator of the once segregated denomination. At his investiture, Bottoms got one of the week's few laughs. As his predecessor put the chain with the traditional cross of office over his head, the new moderator remarked: "Any time any white person puts anything...
...role as the Governor of California dramatic enough, or does Former Actor Ronald Reagan hanker to make yet another movie? "Oh, the thought has entered the mind, but I know I can't do it," says the 61-year-old veteran of 50-odd films. But he adds: "I would have done anything in the world to play the title role in Patton," for which George C. Scott won a 1970 Academy Award. Another legendary general also appeals to the Governor: Douglas MacArthur. "When I think of the story that could be done on the same basis-coming...
Yahya raised the minimum industrial wage by 30%, to $26 a month, brought in several civilian ministers when soldiers proved unfit for the jobs, and sought to reduce official venality. He had no intention of allowing a sudden return to full civilian rule, yet he did not seem to hanker for power-despite the Pakistani saying that "a general galloping upon a stallion is slow to dismount." Eventually, he decided to press ahead not only with an election but a new constitution, even though, as he later said, "some of my countrymen don't like the idea. They...