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...week's end there was no clear-cut evidence that Constantine had any knowledge of the attempt to overthrow the junta, which government spokesmen initially brushed off as an "operetta" involving "a handful" of men, including two retired admirals. But shortly afterward, 32 senior naval officers were arrested and presumably will be tried on charges of treason. Then 31 other navymen, led by the commander of the destroyer Velos, mutinied and were granted asylum at the port of Fiumicino in Italy. Then the government admitted that the "operetta" had been a serious attempt at revolution...
When Outfielder Carolyn King, 12, tried out for the Orioles, an Ypsilanti, Mich., Little League baseball team, she beat out 15 boys and qualified for a starting position. Not long afterward, Little League headquarters in Williamsport, Pa., cited its rule barring girls from league teams and threatened to withdraw the Orioles' charter. Ypsilanti's city councilmen issued a counterthreat...
Tell the Truth. Last week Dean met secretly with Sam Dash, the Ervin committee's chief counsel. Afterward, the committee voted unanimously to guarantee Dean a limited immunity against prosecution for whatever he might tell in the televised hearings. The Justice Department can-and intends to-delay that request for 30 days, but Judge John Sirica will have to approve it at the end of that period...
...chargé d'affaires appeared, as specified, on television to report that the freed rebels had safely arrived in Havana. But then Leonhardy's captors made an additional demand for his freedom: $80,000 in ransom money. A day later, the ransom was paid; nine hours afterward, Leonhardy was found, exhausted and unshaven, in a Guadalajara street. He called his 76-hour captivity a "terrible ordeal. I prayed a lot. I didn't know when they might put a bullet through my head...
Makk and his two superb actresses excel at capturing the ambivalences between the old lady and her daughter-in-law, the mingling of affection and exasperation, rivalry and devotion. Soon, but quietly, the old lady dies. Not long afterward, her son (Ivan Darvas) is released from prison, with as little warning and reason as he was first put there. He savors, almost timidly, the sudden sensations of freedom, then, a little anxiously, returns home to his wife. Luca tells him of his mother's passing, and he mourns, though not for long. In his wife he is reminded again...