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...this tense situation, the King remained the one unifying force in the country. The new government had without a doubt reduced his power, but his defiant disapproval of the coup had enhanced his stature. For years, the monarchy has depended all too heavily on the Greek military for support. It would now be Constantine's task to influence the military toward moderation?if he can?in order to lessen the chance that his country will slip into civil...
...writing. "If I cannot speak," he says, "what good is it to be out of prison?" The editors of the Yugoslav magazine Praxis, which stopped publishing eight months ago when Tito angrily denounced its cries for reform, have just come out with a new issue that is no less defiant than before. About the least penitent of all the authors punished by Tito is Mihajlo Mihajlov, 33, who last week was led from Sremska Mitrovica prison to face his third trial in two years for "spreading hostile propaganda against the regime." Mihajlov presented a defense that was pure heresy...
...Equally defiant of Communist hopes was the synod's participation in the election of a new council chairman, Germany's top Protestant post. The man chosen-Bavaria's Bishop Hermann Dietzfelbinger, 58-was in fact formally proposed by the Fiirstenwalde session. Regarded as a moderate on the question of East-West relations, Dietzfelbinger was chosen over the pre-synod favorite, Hannover's Bishop Hanns Lilje, who is more closely identified with Germany's political controversies. Dietzfelbinger succeeds Bishop Kurt Scharf of Berlin-Brandenburg, who hopes to return to East Berlin, from which he was expelled...
...absolute certainty that they changed the course of history. Jesus was one; so was Karl Marx. Still another was Martin Luther, friar of the Augustinian Order of Eremites, who 450 years ago posted his 95 theses concerning indulgences to the door of the Wittenberg Castle Church. There was nothing defiant or earth-shaking about the act itself-all theologians of the day publicly announced their willingness to debate a timely religious issue. Not until later, in fact, did Luther come to realize that his action of Oct. 31, 1517, was the first shot in the war of words that...
...Grimly Defiant. Her conviction, which she plans to appeal, was just a start. For one thing, her broker, Robert J. Breckenridge, a former president of the Toronto Exchange and onetime chairman of the city's Better Business Bureau, has also been charged with wash trading in the Golden Arrow case. And Viola herself, together with her husband, will stand trial on more serious fraud charges because of their Windfall dealings. For all her troubles, the Queen Bee remains grimly defiant. "They can't take my love of mining away from me," she said last week...