Word: premiered
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Above Oratory. If the Russians seemed particularly helpful, it was perhaps because they themselves were growing leary of the erratic North Korean Communists. Even so, the Soviets may benefit from North Korea's attack on the U.S. plane. Japan's Premier Eisaku Sato took an unusually forthright pro-U.S. position after the EC-121 went down, but Japan's citizenry has become increasingly edgy about the risks attendant on playing host to the U.S. military. Moscow-as well as Peking and Pyongyang-would like to see American strength reduced in the far Pacific. With...
...Ottoman occupation, village churches have been more than houses of worship. They also developed into centers of Greek patriotism and serve as town halls where local problems can be threshed out and the people protected from the world below before they reach the haven of heaven above. The Premier has already remembered his church at Elaiohorion by giving it new pews and a lectern, an icon stand and a bishop's chair. Pattakos' sister Irene, who still lives in Aghia Paraskevi, recalls their religious upbringing. "Mother taught us to make the sign of the cross before sleeping...
...mother to cook." Poverty was complicated by what Greek peasants, with wonderful exactitude, refer to as "eaters"-the bureaucrats they had to bribe, the merchants who bought their produce at unscrupulously low prices, the moneylenders who kept them in perpetual bondage. In one of his first acts as Premier, Papadopoulos forgave farmers' debts to the national bank .of agriculture. "You are the clear heads and the soul of the nation," he told a delegation that came to thank...
...Balance. The Communists, after telephoning Moscow, are invited to a Cabinet meeting. Says the Premier: "The people have spoken and democratically elected your party . . ."He prepares to hand over power when Luigi Longo suddenly shouts: "Don't try to make fun of us! We know quite well this is all a dirty capitalistic trick. That computer of yours is the trick. You rigged the wiring...
...cold dawn, it all becomes clear. The Communists have refused to allow themselves to be duped into governing, knowing full well, as do all Italians, that Italy is essentially ungovernable. Longo and his friends leave the Premier's office. The Communist leader is saying wistfully to his deputy: "It would have been nice, though, and you could have been Prime Minister. Too bad. Moscow said the balance of power in Europe should not be destroyed...