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...hatreds run deep. Makarios, now President of Cyprus, considers Grivas a trigger-happy jackboot bent on grabbing full power on the island. Grivas in turn claims that Makarios is vacillating, dishonest, and a dupe of the Communists, who has no intention of honoring his pledge to bring about enosis, the unity of Cyprus with Greece. In 1964, the Greek government seemed to side with Grivas when it sent him to Nicosia to take charge of Cyprus' 11,000-man National Guard, the regular 950-man Greek army contingent, and some 8,500 mainland "volunteers" stationed in Cyprus to help...
...Levine had been a staff physician at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and was in consultant in cardiology there when he died. He was also affiliated with six other hospitals throughout the country...
...graduates who are most familiar with the college's problems will not be eligible to vote. According to a rule passed in 1865, alumni may not cast a ballot until five years after they graduate. Apparently the five years following graduation are more valuable to a man bent on acquiring sagacity and maturity than the four years he spends getting his degree...
Strong Suspicion. All the while, he was proclaiming himself the father of Pan-African nationalism, and grinding out intricately vague political doctrines about "African socialism." It all sound ed splendid enough, and his fellow Africans were impressed at first. Later, when they found his agents bent on overthrowing their regimes, other African leaders lost their enthusiasm for the freedom pioneer. He was strongly suspected of instigating the 1963 assassination of Togo's President Sylvanus Olympic; last year 14 French-speaking states joined together in a formal denunciation of his eternal plotting...
When he wrote To Katanga and Back, the story of his six months in the Congo, various U.N. officials argued that he had no right to tell his story, which they felt was biased anyway. He was pictured as a guilty victim bent on self-justification. But O'Brien seems awfully clearheaded, and even lighthearted, as his U.N.-inspired image would imply. True, he quit two jobs after disagreements with his superiors, but there is much to indicate that he may have been justified in both cases...