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...week's end the storm had subsided around the crown, whose motto ironically proclaims: "My power is in the love of the people." But in the Byzantine tangle of Greek politics, the struggle was sure to go on and sooner or later erupt anew. For the Greeks can live neither with, nor without, their Kings...
...pretty hard to do, considering that his supporters turned the Minnesota delegation's Atlantic City headquarters into a virtual campaign command post, and considering also that somewhere, somebody must have had to get scores of signs and standards and balloons ready for the big spontaneous demonstration that might erupt on the convention floor...
...week's end St. Augustine was once more a sleepy seashore city. But its peace was uneasy, and behind lay a pattern of racial violence that could erupt again at any time...
...part of SNCC's philosophy has not changed: the firm commitment to nonviolence. Some workers may joke about starting "a small Mau-Mau" or quietly express their belief that unless victories come soon in the South, race warfare could erupt. But these fears only increase the sense of urgency and dedication toward proving that nonviolent tactics can succeed. It seems tragically certain that there will be violence in Mississippi this summer; yet it is equally certain that such violence will not come from anyone associated with SNCC...
...brought Moslem raiders who installed Arab sultans and kept the island's black majority in bondage cultivating the clove groves (the island still supplies 75% of the world's cloves). After the British took over in 1890, troops kept the racial peace, but today race riots sporadically erupt. Though the Arabs make up less than 20% of the population, they control the economy, dominate the new government through the Arab-led Nationalist Party...