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Obediently, the officers brought in Arnaoutis, who warned the King that anarchy was rampant. Next came Kanellopoulos, who advised the King to try to persuade the officers to return the country to parliamentary rule. Then with Spandidakis and the coup leaders absent, the King met alone with a handful of the highest ranking generals. "The people who are with me, stand up," commanded the King. All the generals rose, but as they and he both knew by now, it was the colonels who had the guns-and the power...
...have not singled out any self-sustaining, meaningful activity. It has no program tailored to long range purposes, and even in Atlanta SNCC has neither catalyzed nor offered viable community leadership. SNCC lacks a broad community base and visible, tangible results, the major tests of effectiveness, have been noticeably absent...
...countries, including four in Washington, is often accused of using them for other purposes than news gathering. A onetime Tassman (1945-55) who later switched to diplomacy and became Deputy Foreign Minister, Lapin has spent the past two years as ambassador to Red China, but has been absent from his post for months because of Chinese demonstrations against Russia. He replaced Dmitry F. Goryunov, another Brezhnev protege whose future is uncertain. With unjournalistic vagueness, Tass reported only that Goryunov has been assigned to "other work...
...general, the Band had trouble coping with the Hindemith, evidencing flaws which were absent else-where. Hindemith takes a Straussian delight in piling up layers of motivic material, creating a massive and complicated fabric of sound. There are simply a lot of notes to get through, and often the Band gave the impression it was plowing through the music rather than performing...
...Only two who were invited will be absent: Bolivia's Rene Barrientos, who is angry because the question of his landlocked country's access to the sea is not on the agenda, and Haiti's Francois ("Papa Doc") Duvalier, who fears what might happen if he left home. Cuba's Castro was not, of course, invited...