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Papandreou's first interview after being sworn in confirmed that he might not be the firebrand in office that he was in opposition (see box). Rather than close down U.S. bases immediately, he appears content to open negotiations on the question. Instead of withdrawing from NATO, he now says, Greece will remain a member until it can find a better way to meet its defense needs. And the referendum on European Community membership may never take place, since it would have to be called by President Constantine Caramanlis, who is fervently pro-European. In Brussels, European Community officials professed...
...onetime revolutionary firebrand and career military man, he died in a hail of bullets?yet history will remember Anwar Sadat, above all, as a man of peace...
...Catholic Church made no response to FitzGerald's proposals last week, but they were hailed by leading Protestant clergymen in the Republic. In Ulster, Protestant Firebrand Ian Paisley railed that FitzGerald's plan would "in no way weaken our resolve never to come under Dublin rule." Catholic leaders gave the initiative a guarded welcome. Said Sean Farren, chairman of the predominantly Catholic Social Democratic and Labor Party: "Many changes, both in attitudes and in law, are needed if a meaningful agreement is to be achieved between the people of Ireland...
...Charles de Gaulle once described as being above the "petty elements of the everyday political fray." In a week dominated by largely symbolic meetings and gestures, President Francois Mitterrand helped calm jittery nerves at home and abroad by projecting the image of the measured statesman rather than the Socialist firebrand his critics have portrayed...
...Foot Soldiers. The firebrand Young Socialists provide the manpower for recruiting drives on factory floors and in local parties. "We're becoming enormously attractive to working-class youth," claims Laurence Coates, 22, an unemployed school janitor elected as Young Socialist representative to the Labor Party's 30-member national executive committee. "We're not a 'mass' force, but we're growing...