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Last week the idol that was Caramanlis turned out to be-in the eyes of Greek voters-just another mortal politician. In an election he had called a year early to seek a new mandate, the conservative Premier won a second term, but with a greatly reduced majority. Caramanlis' New Democracy Party held on to 42% of the vote (against 54% in 1974); that translated into 173 seats in the 300-member National Assembly, according to the reinforced proportional system that rewards big parties. Nonetheless, the total was down from the 215 that New Democracy had before. No fewer...
...Shirley B. Goodwin fights for his elderly compatriots with a zest that captures the spirit of Dylan Thomas' immortal advice to mortal man. Forced to retire four years ago as social relations executive of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese-of Massachusetts, he has been crusading ever since against what he sees as the injustice of being "thrown...
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Censorship still exists?though it is not as stiff as before?but enforcement can be confused and capricious. The authorities have not tried to close Madrid, Mortal Sin, a lively revue?complete with a nude scene ?that pokes fun at everything, including politicians of all stripes. The most popular film in Madrid last winter was The Proposal, a sexually explicit tale of an amoral senorita who accidentally kills her lover out of erotic ardor. But Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris has yet to be shown, and a poet was recently fined $2,700 for reading in public...
...Palestinian state. Let me tell you that's not only the opinion of the Likud. On this we have a national consensus. The previous government was also of the same opinion. Under no circumstances can we agree to a so-called Palestinian state. It would be a mortal danger to us. There is a consensus of, I suppose, 95% of the people, and by their political representatives, not to allow such a development to take place...