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...officials, relatives of hostages and newsmen gathered in the yard below the library, the convicts staged a grim spectacle. One by one, like mannequins in a display window, the hostages were periodically pressed against the library's glass doors. In the event of an attack, they would be directly in the line of fire. Their captors, in fact, were no strangers to killing. They were all serving time for murder or assault to murder. Their leader, Fred Gomez Carrasco, 34, who had been injured in a shootout with police, was a lifer suspected of killing dozens of people...
...strengthen Greece's shaky economy, which has been aggravated since the Cyprus crisis began July 15-an estimated $400 million lost in tourism, foreign remittances and shipping, and a 40% cut in industrial production. So far, Caramanlis has demonstrated an impressive ability to make the most of a grim situation. Yet he still has a long way to go-politically and economically-if he is to succeed in constructing a democracy on the ruins of the junta's dictatorship...
...significant that The Rhodesia Herald, a colonial paper which understandably records FRELIMO's victories with jaundiced eyes on account of the revolutionary fervour such successes are likely to engender among Southern African blacks, has nevertheless had to carry several grim stories of Portuguese military reverses. For example, on July 24, the paper reported...
...awaken those numb spirits. Here, Heilbroner charts the three major challenges of the not-too-distant future: overpopulation, impending nuclear holocaust, and environmental destruction. Perhaps none of these issues will scare anybody, but the supportive evidence should. Overpopultion in developing countries seems most assuredly to be heading toward a grim Malthusian reckoning: death from starvation and malnutrition will be the only checks on these peoples' birth rates. In those countries which are not outright dictatorships, only a kind of militaristic socialism will be able to enforce a strict birth-control...
Halfway through what has so far been a dismal year for the economy, the Nixon Administration is still groping for a way to break the grim combination of stagnant production, roaring inflation, strangling interest rates and slumping financial markets. Last week the President met at the White House with 25 top businessmen and non-Government economists to solicit their views...