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Seni Pramoj announced last week that he intends to "review" the American position in Thailand. But that will not solve all his problems. Students and labor unionists who overthrew an entrenched military regime in 1973 and later backed Kukrit may stage new protests unless the government takes steps to solve the country's economic problems. If the army intervenes to put down demonstrations, more trouble will follow. Many Thais fear that the aristocratic Seni, an Oxford-educated lawyer who dabbles in poetry, music and sculpture, is too passive and ethereal to cope with the country's troubles...
...England, where he is a political science student at Warwick University, Gowon denied any involvement in the coup attempt. Nonetheless the Nigerian government, which, after all, overthrew Gowon in the first place, seems bent on punishing him. Lagos radio said last week that "legal and diplomatic steps" are being taken to extradite Gowon to Nigeria, though it seems highly unlikely that the British government will accede to the request...
...sympathy for socialism (although "I am entirely against Communism," he says, speaking of the Soviet system). Like many other third world students I interviewed, he expressed great admiration for Chinese "achievements, if not their government." Yet, abstract beliefs clash with immediate practicalities; Poku-Appiah says that military rule--which overthrew leftist President Kwame Nkrumah's regime in 1966--is the proper form of government for Ghana at present. The junta instills discipline: Poku-Appiah says an endemic problem in the Ghanaian bureaucracy is lateness for work, a crime which in the old days went unpunished. Now the offenders are drilled...
...suicide of United Chairman Eli Black, who swung his briefcase to smash a hole in a window of his office on the 44th floor of New York City's Pan Am Building and then jumped to his death. The disclosure helped bring on a Honduran coup that overthrew the government of President Oswaldo López Arellano...
Saraiva de Carvalho is the self-designated "Fidel Castro of Europe" who was responsible for festooning Lisbon with red carnations during the 1974 April revolution that overthrew former Premier Marcello Caetano. His arrest indicated how far to the right Portugal has moved since last November. Some 150 high-ranking military officers and government officials have been imprisoned for alleged involvement in the fall revolt, and more arrests were expected to follow last week's report. To make room for the leftists, the government of moderate Premier José Pinheiro de Azevedo has quietly released nearly all of the political...