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...other guerrillas before their release. Outside Amman's dour Mahatta prison, in a swirling dust and under a blazing sun, hundreds of Palestinian refugees and sympathizers danced to the lilting music of a shepherd's flute as they waited for the first prisoners to be freed. Encouraged by television cameramen, many in the crowd chanted "Long live King Hussein...
...Have labor-saving appliances and gadgets really freed women from household work? Joann Vanek, a sociologist at the University of Michigan, compared a series of group time-use studies conducted between 1926 and 1965, and concluded that the amount of time housewives spent on housework had remained virtually the same over 40 years, despite the introduction of many labor-saving devices during that period. Actually, Vanek found, the new appliances did save women time in specific routine tasks such as food preparation and laundry. But most of the women had apparently invented new kinds of housework to take...
...latter-day Caesar. But last week, apparently feeling secure after obtaining a 78.4% majority in an unopposed "election" for an eight-year term as President of his recently proclaimed Greek republic, Papadopoulos, 54, surprised his critics with an uncharacteristic Caesarean gesture. He declared a sweeping amnesty and freed an estimated 330 political prisoners-all those known to be in custody, including the man who had narrowly missed assassinating Papadopoulos himself...
Within hours of taking the oath of office in the Cathedral of Athens, "Papa Dop" went before the television cameras and loosed a barrage of decrees and promises. He announced the lifting of martial law from the Athens-Piraeus area, long after most of the country had been freed from its iron grip. He laid out a fixed schedule for a return to what he called "full democracy," with a timetable beginning several months earlier than he had previously suggested. A constitutional court to pass on the legitimacy of political parties will be set up next month. He promised...
...Varahagi-ri Venkata Giri. He said the government had failed to use the immense power that Mrs. Gandhi had won in 1971 in the national elections and in 1972 in the state elections-and, he might have added, the unmatched popularity she had gained after India trounced Pakistan and freed Bangladesh. Little more than a year ago, India and Indira alike were in a state of seemingly enduring euphoria...