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AFTER the defeat of the Communists in the civil war, a broad-based liberal coalition gained power, but torn by factional strife, it was unable to reduce the country's political and economic misery, and a conservative party- "The Rally of the Greek People" -was elected to succeed it in 1952. This party had been inspired and launched in large measure by John Peurifoy, the newly-arrived U.S. ambassador-the same man who, as ambassador to Guatemala, engineered the 1954 coup there in cooperation with...
...would urge those who feel torn to make some other clear symbolic protest. Some may stand and turn their backs on the "ambassador," or wear all black to the meeting, others may wear red or white armbands, a few may wear costumes-storm troopers perhaps-and regard the whole event as theater...
...bleakest landscape in the U.S. can be found where miners have torn away the earth's surface to get at coal deposits. Huge piles of gray debris, aptly called "orphan soil banks," stand like gravestones over land so scarred and acidic that only rodents can live there. The sight is not rare. Using dynamite, bulldozers, great augers and earth movers, working on the surface rather than below ground, strip miners now produce 37% of the nation's annual coal output. They have already ripped up more than 1,800,000 acres. By 1980, if present trends continue...
...Torn between the feelings of guilt and hostility that plague many an entrepreneur's son, Cardullo eventually came back. "I hate working for my father," he says, "but I am dedicated to him in a certain respect." Now Cardullo puts in 14 hours a day, seven days a week. The only time he sees friends is when they come in as customers. His girl friend had to take a part-time job as a hostess...
...Sweden is torn by strikes that have closed railways, law courts, government offices and schools. Finance Minister Gunnar Sträng has put the country on a deflationary diet of tighter credit, higher indirect taxes and restricted federal spending, and is taking a firm stand against union demands. Still, inflation is expected to stay about the same as last year's 8%. The anti-inflationary policies have hurt small wage earners and great companies alike. Twenty-three workingmen in the mountain village of Stora Blasjon, some without work for the past two years, went on a hunger strike last...