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...wonder whether it might not have been preferable for him to accede to Papandreou's original demands for elections six weeks ago. In the interim, angry demonstrators, egged on by Papandreou's attacks on the "palace slaves," have whipped latent public distrust of the monarchy to a fever pitch. An election held now would probably not only return Papandreou to office, but be interpreted as a plebiscite on the monarchy as well...
...defense, Yorty charges that the Federal Government bears a major share of the responsibility for stirring the emotions of Los Angeles Negroes to fever pitch. In a telegram that he fired off to Washington last week, Yorty declared that "one of the riot-inciting factors was the deliberate and well-publicized cutting off of poverty funds to this city," demanded that Shriver "process our programs and release our funds while we reorganize." The mayor also accused California Governor Edmund G. Brown of trying to make political hay by appointing a commission to look into the riots' causes...
...quoted from the Bible (Acts 8: 5-7) on curing the palsied and the lame, promised that "this bill will accomplish the miracles of which today we only dream." His Administration's goal, he said, is nothing less than "complete eradication" of children's deaths from rheumatic fever, substantial reduction of the rate of death from heart disease, and elimination of malaria and cholera "from the entire world." His aim, declared Johnson, is not just "America the Beautiful, but the World the Beautiful." Announcing that his quietly efficient surgeon general, Luther Terry, was resigning after four years, Johnson...
...unenviable reputation of being one of the most common long-lasting disorders of children, and one of their major kill ers. As a cause of death, reports Dr. Paul A. di Sant'-Agnese of the National Institutes of Health, cystic fibrosis outweighs poliomyelitis, diabetes and rheumatic fever combined. It is now clear, says Dr. di Sant'-Agnese, that C.F. affects far more than the pancreas and lungs. It involves the sweat glands, of which there are about 2,000,000, and also the salivary glands. In fact, it is through an excess of salt in the sweat that...
Europe's newly discovered riches of natural gas are creating a major upheaval in the world's fastest growing energy market. Across the Continent, the new gas finds are lighting an investment fever and bringing some chills to a vulnerable competitor, coal. As estimates grow of the size of The Netherlands' mammoth Groningen gas field (widely regarded as twice the official 1.1 trillion cubic meters), and as oilmen probe the bottom of the North Sea for what may be even larger deposits-one big one was hit last week off the West German island of Borkum...