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In moving to prosecute the six, Premier Constantine Caramanlis responded to growing pressure. Preoccupied with the Cyprus crisis, which brings demonstrators into the streets of Athens with increasing frequency, Caramanlis had been under attack for being too lenient in dealing with former junta members and their collaborators. More than 100...
Costa Gavras, the creator of Z and State of Siege also made a film called The Confession about the Slansky trials (Czech purge trials) in the late forties. With Yves Montand. This is the beginning of a C-G series at B.U.'s Hayden Hall. Tonight at 7:30.
But because of sociology's lack of all-encompassing theory tied to the existing social order, sociologists have a tendency towards the accommodation of radical views. Senior sociologists at Harvard, like Seymour Martin Lipset and Daniel Bell, have integrated Marxist modes of analysis into their own theories. A parallel development...
One more controversial issue worth mentioning is the curious electoral process itself, formulated over the summer by Caramanlis's administration. Greek government functions on the basis of 300 parliamentary representatives and a prime minister, who are selected by apportioning seats among the parties relative to the number of votes each...
While zealously pursuing foreign capital, Mobutu has tried to purge his country of foreign customs. As part of his "authenticity" campaign, Mobutu changed the name of his country to Zaire (meaning river). He decreed that all Zaireans discard Christian names for African ones. Throbbing tom-toms replaced the 21-gun...