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Demonstrators in Salonika and Patras joined with the Athens insurgents to create the biggest student protest since the military coup d'etat by President George Papadopoulis...
...diplomats [in Athens] were accredited to me and to no one else. How can they now assume that those credentials are transferred to an illegal regime? Until the people of Greece can freely express themselves, this is essential. Otherwise, the free world will be condoning a coup d'etat with no legal basis...
Until the 1970 coup d'etat, in which Marshal Lon Not overthrew the government of Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the Cambodian rebel force, then known as the Khmer Rouge, was a ragged band of perhaps 3,000 guerrillas who were affiliated with the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong. Since then, the rebels have grown into a seasoned revolutionary army of at least 45,000 troops, with a solid support cadre of more than 70,000 civilians. Last week, after visiting Phnom-Penh, TIME Correspondent Barry Hillenbrand sent this report on the insurgents...
...same perspective which dominated last week's Faculty meeting averts outside assessments of administrative responsiveness. In turn, students reject out of hand unchallenged administrative conclusions. And so do they scoff at a Faculty which works from tired prejudices and outdated fears of a student coup d'etat...
...French may forget that the Anglo-Americans could engage in that traditional tactic known as la riposte. Comfortably embedded in the English language are many French phrases that could be driven out. In the art of politics, coup d'etat might be replaced by kayo, laissez-faire by leave it alone and chauvinist by superpatriot. In the art of love, soiree would give way to the bash, rendezvous to date and femme fatale to sexpot. As for savoir-faire-cool, man. But then, plus ca change...