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...violent week on Britain's strife-torn island colony. Archbishop Makarios III, bearded marshal of Greek-Cypriot agitation for union with Greece, has repeatedly insisted that he would have no part of 1) Communists, 2) bloodshed. Last week his position on both counts was in doubt. After the crackdown on Communists, the archbishop spoke up to "denounce the action of the British government." Said he: "We believe one ideology can be fought only by another . . . not by force...
...Jersey State Police yesterday announced a severe crackdown on hitchhikers on the Pike. The Turnpike Authority blamed the crackdown on the unusually large number of people in recent years who have resorted to thumbing for their transportation...
Major General Pedro Aramburu, who took over as President of Argentina a fortnight ago on a platform of tougher crackdown on Peronismo than his go-slow predecessor, last week cracked down in measures both symbolic and practical...
Against the crackdown were the rightists and neo-Nazis generally referred to in Argentina as nationalists: a group of unreconstructed Perónistas who hoped to ride back to influence with the nationalists; new right-wing or centrist parties, some under Roman Catholic auspices. Any of these might gain strength by attracting old Peronistas, whose party is now leaderless. Their spokesmen: Presidential Press Secretary Carlos Goyeneche and Army Minister Leon Bengoa...
...liberals' pleasure quickly faded when Lonardi wrote out a manifesto to the nation. Said he: "The government prefers that some guilty persons escape rather than permit some innocent persons to suffer" -a plain slap at Vice President Rojas' plan for mass trials. Further inflaming the crackdown group, Lonardi fired Minister Busso...