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Prime Minister George Papandreou's lure for leftist support in last February's national elections was a pledge to repeal anti-Communist legislation en acted between 1946 and 1949 when Communist guerrillas tried to seize power. Sure enough, Papandreou's Cen ter Union, having garnered 173 seats in Greece's 300-member Parliament, rammed through a bill to free most Communist prisoners convicted of sedition and murder, abolish political deportations, and deprive the police of power to withhold work permits on political grounds...
...plan, drawn up by the party's Ideological Commission, is perhaps the most thorough in Soviet history. The commission will set up a new Institute of Scientific Atheism, offer courses in the subject at Russian universities starting this fall. Atheism will be taught more intensively at party training cen ters and in special courses for teachers, doctors and journalists. Already start ed are competitions for the best atheist plays, films, paintings and photographs (one entry shows believers gloating over a collection plate). To counter act the emotional appeal of church feasts, the party will give greater emphasis to Russia...
Another civil rights group, an ad hoc committee of 20 students, led by William R. Crout, teaching fellow in Cen Ed, left Cambridge for Washington yesterday morning to lobby for the passage of Title X. This legislation would allow Perdew and other imprisoned demonstrators to remove their cases quickly from state to federal courts...
...Western nation she would be a political force to be reckoned with. In an Oriental country burdened with cen turies of ignorance and bloodshed, she is probably more feared than any other man or woman ? and fear under such conditions can mean power beyond ei ther respect or popularity...
...from the borders of modern China to the banks of the Danube. Though they possessed neither writing nor coinage, they caught the fancy of the higher civilizations that they came in touch with. To the Scythians, Herodotus devoted a volume so filled with tales of fabulous treasure that for cen turies historians suspected that the old master had made the whole book up. When archaeologists, 150 years ago, began exploring the tombs that bandits had discovered, Herodotus was vindicated...