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Underground Control. The prisoners are the remnants of the 6,000 or so Communist suspects who were rounded up in the early hours of the military takeover last April. The junta claims that they remain in prison only because they refuse to sign pledges promising to refrain from political activity. Following an attack on the junta from Paris by Andreas Papandreou, who was recently released from prison and allowed to leave Greece, security officers might be inclined to keep such men in custody a bit longer. While ruling out violence for his own Center Union Party, Papandreou predicted that, unless...
...patient out of bed and walking," has become an increasingly familiar refrain of surgeons after virtually every kind of operation. But there seemed to be one obvious exception: if the patient has a broken leg - or, worse, two broken legs - should he not stay in a cast and flat on his back for weeks? No, concluded Orthopedic Surgeon Ernst Dehne of the Veterans Administration Hospital in Memphis; let him start walking as soon as the cast...
...Action. It's not that easy. The real world eventually invades the sanctity of academia: military training on campus, defense grants, weaponry courses at the Business School, the draft ranking system, and the threat of induction immediately following graduation. The student is being acted upon, why should he refrain from acting...
...Ninety-two per cent said that the statement, "Americans who disagree with the Administration's policy should not refrain from speaking out even at the risk of undermining the morale of our own troops and encouraging the enemy," came closest to their view...
...President praised McNamara's performance of the duties of Defense Secretary, but said, "I could not justify asking Secretary McNamara indefinitely to continue to bear the enormous burdens of his position nor could I, in justice to him and to this nation's obligations to the World Bank, refrain from recommending that he be selected as president of the bank...