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...presented a reasonable tax program, the legislature, eager to increase the sales tax, refused to budge. So did Williams. As a result, the state could not meet its payrolls and phrase "payless paydays" became permanently attached to the Governor. The Detroit newspapers, the Luce magazines, etc., did a brutal hatchet job on Williams from which he has never recovered...
Three nights later, Ioannis bludgeoned his sleeping father with a hatchet, then stood by with his mother and sister while Vlachos suffocated to death in his own gore. ("Get a towel," Helena had warned beforehand. "There will be a lot of blood.") The family went to the police and told the whole story. Only then did they learn, to their astonishment, that their deed is punishable in West Germany by life imprisonment. "But I had to avenge my father's crime," protested Ioannis. "Why is it murder?" Even his sister Paschalina, 12, agreed: "What my brother did was right...
...more strength with the weakly motivated center of the electorate. A disproportionate number of such voters are young, and for them the 37-year-old Cavanagh has great appeal. They associate him with his record as mayor, while they tend to identify Williams with the 1958 recession and the hatchet job he took from the Republican legislature and newspapers...
...with the rebellion finally quelled and Tshombe forced out of office last month, President Joseph Kasavubu figured it was time to bring his neighborly relations back to normal. His first step came at the African "summit" meeting at Accra, where he neatly buried the hatchet with such neighbors as Tanzania and the Sudan, which had also supported the rebels. Last week, after hours of "pleasant" conversation in Leopoldville, Brazzaville's Ganao succumbed to the Kasavubu treatment as well. The two Congos agreed to re-establish diplomatic relations and restore the permanent ferry service that had once linked their...
Quiet as Hell. Did the arrest presage a new cultural crackdown? So far, the Brezhnev-Kosygin regime has taken a moderate approach to intellectuals, avoiding the shrill, savage attacks of the Khrushchev era. Khrushchev's cultural hatchet man, Leonid Ilyichev, has been removed; Stalin's pet geneticist, Trofim Lysenko, has been disavowed by Russian science; imaginative and critical writing appears frequently in Soviet publications so long as it remains within limits. More importantly, B. & K. seem to recognize the sheer public-relations value inherent in "liberalization." Says one Washington Kremlin-watcher: "These men would like to handle this...