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Under loannidis' cold eye, life has become even more repressive than under the harshest days of Papadopoulos' rule. Students are harassed by police, who constantly loiter on campuses and are suspected of having informers in the classrooms. The right-wing newspaper Vradyni, Athens' major evening journal, has been shut down for criticizing the government. Koumkan, a rummylike game adored by Greek housewives, is forbidden as degenerate; after a brief revival under Papadopoulos, the music of Marxist Composer Mikis Theodorakis is once more discouraged, as singers are told, "for your own good." The possibility that elections...
...commission laid complete blame for Israel's poor showing in the early days of the war on the military and exonerated Israel's political leadership-namely, Dayan and Mrs. Meir. Its harshest judgments were reserved for Lieut. General David Elazar, Israel's tough, professional Chief of Staff, and his top intelligence officers. It charged Elazar with "failure to make a real effort to reach his own assessment as a commander" and noted that "he even failed to tour the front lines during the tension in the last week before the war." Elazar's worst mistake...
Speaking at a program of films and discussion at Cabot Hall, Karel Kovanda, a Ph.D. candidate in political science at MIT, called the current Czech government "the harshest, the most stalinist in all of Eastern Europe." Kovanda was chairman of the Union of Czechoslovakian Students at the time of the Russian intervention in August...
...President is a rugged man with a grave and gentle conversational style. There is an utterly calm and somewhat pedantic quality in his harshest comments on Zionism, Israeli aggressiveness and U.S. foreign policy, and these little lectures consumed at least half of the interview. Assad's views on substantive issues...
...start with, there is no solid measure that Lincoln was the most vilified President in our history. Richard Current, professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, thinks that Harry Truman might hold that prize. Some of the harshest material now printed about Lincoln came from private letters and obscure speeches before tiny radical audiences. Much of this had almost no public circulation at the time, although there were many widely read assaults on Lincoln from his moderate critics...