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...next morning martial law, which had been lifted with the promise of elections, was re-imposed. And thousands of students and young workers were arrested, dealing a tremendous blow to student anti-junta organizations. Within a week of the revolt, Papadopolous himself was overthrown by the most extreme, uncompromising faction of the fascist clique, headed by Brigadier General Dimitri Ioannides. The last and most repressive phase of the dictatorship began. The prisons and concentration camps were again full...
...examine themselves. Tyler desperately grapples for Missy and she, not wanting to deal with new-realized realities of existence, squirms away from him. Otis finds his campers rebellious, and as vandals invade his property and ruin his rowboats this pathetic non-Prospero finds his dream dissolved, his charms overthrown; "what strength I have's mine own" is not very much...
...widespread hope is that torture-prone dictatorships will be overthrown, like the junta in Greece. But generally the odds are against such regimes being replaced by more benign ones, especially in countries where democracy and human rights have feeble roots to begin with. Another hope is that dictatorships will gain enough of a sense of security to cut out at least the routine use of the worst brutalities. Meanwhile, about the only avenues left are publicity and prayer-and, perhaps, keeping alive in memory a statement made by Vladimir Hertzog, a Brazilian journalist found dead a few hours after being...
...respite from statecraft and journalism for a brief fling at the movies. In the film version of The Ugly American, Kukrit got surprisingly good reviews for his portrayal of the democratic Prime Minister of a mythical Southeast Asia nation called Sarkhan. The movie Prime Minister was besieged and almost overthrown by Communists, largely because of a meddling U.S. ambassador (played by Marlon Brando...
...Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is part of an emerging American state of mind, as well as a hang-over of the burnt-out sixties. Taken as a metaphor, it suggests a revolution in the asylum in which the doctors and nurses are overthrown and the inmates reign over all. As a political metaphor it attempts to identify the lot of the oppressed with the lot of the incapable. Even Animal Farm deals with the same theme in a much more complex way. McMurphy's ethic of fuck and fight is hardly a more desirable...