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...resort-hopping in Italy and Sardinia. Few Greeks expect the government to allow him to return soon, and Papadopoulos last week brusquely refused to set a date for elections. The Premier made it clear that he was in no hurry to return Greece to the perils of democracy. "We intend to be the shepherds of the Greek people," he said. "A shepherd stays to look after his flock even when wolves are not around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greece: Nailing Down the Nai Vote | 9/27/1968 | See Source »

...Thursday Unruh said the appointment was "a very bad mistake." He also revealed the imminent threat that public blacklash might destroy the BED. When the the Regents created the BED, Unruh said, "they did not intend to give it carte blanche ... to invite any and all dissidents." The Regents had assumed, he said, that the BED "would act with restraint...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Busting Cleaver | 9/24/1968 | See Source »

...heavy casualties at Tet and during the May offensive. Allied forces claim to have killed more than 13,000 Communist troops within the past month, almost four times the enemy casualty rate during the early-summer lull in fighting. One seasoned Marine general believes that the Communists no longer intend a third attack on Saigon for just this reason. "They don't have the capability," he argues. "They have lost too many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: A Time of Uncertainty | 9/20/1968 | See Source »

...stakes by insisting that his teachers would not work unless McCoy and the Ocean Hill-Brownsville com mittee are fired. "Mob rule must go," he said. Leaders of the local committee conceded that they no longer could control neighborhood opposition to the return of the teachers and did not intend to try. At week's end the schools were again shut down, and New York's Mayor John Lindsay had asked James Allen, the state's education commissioner, to try to resolve the dispute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Public Schools: Teacher Power v. Black Power | 9/20/1968 | See Source »

...money will finance further withdrawals of the London reserves of sterling-area countries. But the amount has now been limited by individual agreements with Britain. If the British devalue the pound again, they will have to compensate their sterling allies for most of their losses. The bankers intend to give the British economy time to recover. If it does, the pound could possibly thrive again as a center of international finance. Even if it does not, a diminished role for sterling may help avert some of sterling's recurrent crises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money: Shrinking Sterling's Role | 9/20/1968 | See Source »

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