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...hasn't been a great year for international revolution. The two countries whose apparent victories lit up last May Day have found their victories elusive. In Vietnam, the cease-fire won by almost three decades of struggle proved to be little more than a scrap of paper, as the dictatorship of Nguyen Van Thieu continued to hold tens of thousands of political prisoners and to attack liberated territories. And Chile's military, frightened by Popular Unity's movement toward true socialization of wealth and its rights--within the framework of traditional law and with full respect for traditional civil liberties...
Leaders of Cambridge's Portuguese community yesterday expressed happiness with last week's military coup against the Portuguese dictatorship of Marcelo Caetano, and said they believed that change had been needed and coming for a long time...
...dead and would move to consolidate the coup d'état in the countryside. Last week, right on schedule, a "special request" was phoned in to the station and the hymn went out over the air vvaves. But instead of signaling the demise of Amin's brutal dictatorship, it turned into a threnody for the rebels...
Political orientation seems to make no difference. Greece, ruled by a right-wing military dictatorship, is reeling from a 33% inflation?the worst in Europe. Conservative Switzerland, long regarded as a bastion of financial prudence, registers an almost 12% annual inflation. In the Communist world, government control of the economy makes most price figures meaningless, but one nation?Yugoslavia?maintains a market system, and there, prices are zooming at the rate of 22% a year...
...After eight months as ambassador, Graham A. Martin made clear in his first newspaper interview that, despite all the current rhetoric about an "honorable peace," the Nixon administration is still bound by a fierce anti-communism which requires continued support at almost any cost of a corrupt and illegitimate dictatorship. Martin and the White House persist in maintaining that the way to resolve Vietnam's problems and prevent an ultimate communist takeover is a large infusion of military and economic...