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Lenin's policy change, however, came too late to avert the Kronstadt uprising. The sailors, mostly of peasant origin, had visited their homes after the end of the civil war and saw for the first time how difficult life was for their families in the countryside. They, too, blamed the party for most of the nation's ills; after all, had the government not carried out the forcible seizure of peasant grain, and in many instances denied the farmers even a subsistence of their own produce...
Died. Panayotis Pipinelis, 71, Foreign Minister of Greece, one of the few professional politicians to serve the ruling military junta; of a heart attack; in Athens. A longtime supporter of King Constantine, Pipinelis nevertheless stayed on to assist the inexperienced colonels in their efforts to avert war with Turkey over Cyprus in 1967. Fellow royalists regarded him as a traitor, but he persisted in his attempts to moderate the oppressive regime...
...Ireland together, it seemed, was the British army. Eleven thousand tommies under General Sir Ian Freeland patrolled Belfast and Londonderry and enforced a strict nighttime curfew. After the riots, General Freeland ordered his men to shoot to kill civilians carrying weapons. For a few days, such strict measures helped avert fresh outbursts in Belfast, even though 12,000 Protestants marched there in parades commemorating the 1916 Battle of the Somme in which 5,000 Ulstermen died. At week's end, however, pitched battles erupted between Catholics and troops who had discovered a cache of hidden weapons off the Falls...
Wall Street and Washington agree that in order to avert such a calamity, brokerage accounts must be insured in the same way that bank accounts are. Last week President Nixon endorsed that idea in his economic speech. Just before the President spoke, a first-class fight broke out over how much, if any, increased Government regulation of the securities industry should accompany the insurance...
...look where ya goin'? Ya crazy or sump'n?" The way Wolff sees it, such comments indicate that New Yorkers, though inured to many other inconveniences, are not tolerant of sidewalk bumping; they expect some degree of cooperation from other pedestrians in order to avert collisions...