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...Kanellopoulos, a highly respected leader of the National Radical Union, told how he had been arrested at machine-gun point by junta soldiers and taken to the monarch in 1967. He urged the King, who was also commander in chief of the armed forces, to order loyal officers to crush the colonels' rebellion. The weak and inexperienced Constantine, then 27, refused, fearing bloodshed. Instead, he swore the colonels into office...
...psychiatrists recommend an assertive stance for black children. In the past, aggressive black males were likely to be in danger of being beaten or arrested; as a result, some parents tried to crush normal aggressive behavior in their children when they were very young. Today, there is another worry. Explain Poussaint and Comer: "We blacks have a concern about the threat of training or 'brainwashing' black children to be passive or nonaggressive. We fear this has or can lead to acceptance of and adjustment to an unjust society." Blacks must always stand up for their rights, they believe...
...certain. A group of California political pros, including a Reagan lieutenant, came away from a recent meeting with Ford carrying the impression that the President expects the former Governor to make a determined bid even if the odds look heavy against him. In their view, Ford is determined to crush Reagan by rounding up delegates early and dealing roughly with Reagan supporters. Told by the California group that some Reagan aides had been "insulted" by their lack of patronage influence with the Ford Administration, the President sounded unworried about such unrest among Reagan aides. Calmly puffing on his pipe...
...President Park Chung Hee responded with equal bellicosity, warning that the South is also ready for a fight. In this policy, Park has the support of even the opposition politicians. At a special session of the National Assembly, they joined in unanimous support of a government-sponsored resolution "to crush any provocation or invasion by North Korea...
Although everybody was ready to weep crocodile tears when half a million troops from the Warsaw Pact armies marched in, in August 1968, to crush Czech hopes for a socialism reconciled with democracy, the pity was short-lived. For the Western establishment, detente and attractive trade prospects have superceded the initial expressions of humanitarian sympathy mixed with "red-scare" rhetoric. To people on the left, especially pro-communist intellectuals in Europe, the more blatantly violent repression under right wing dictatorships, has made them forget the much "duller" horrors of the Czech "normalization," and close ranks with the socialist camp...