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...falsehood than the next. Nixon claimed in his speech that South Vietnam was threatened by the sudden appearance of the North Vietnamese on its Cambodian flank; yet subsequent reports have shown that the North Vietnamese had in fact been drifting westward and waiting cautiously to see what action the rightist military junta of Lon Nol-who had overthrown neutralist Prince Norodom Sihanouk the month before-would take against them. And a major ex post facto rationale for the invasion-that it closed the port of Sihanoukville-is an even greater fabrication: authoritative Administration sources now state that Sihanoukville was closed...
...coup d'etat, had been scheduled for Dec. 8. That night nearly a thousand of his followers assembled near the Interior Ministry, nerve center of Italy's police and government communications network. They never received the go-ahead. Instead, Borghese was mysteriously warned that his ultra-rightist National Front had long since been infiltrated and the plot was known. Reluctantly Borghese agreed to cancel the coup. By way of consolation, he treated his commanders to a late spaghetti supper...
...disdain the "Students for a Just Peace" deserve our utmost contempt. By betraying their fellow students through providing more identifications they have sought to win support for themselves. Acceptance of their evidence by the Administration shall be construed to be nothing less than the University's complicity with rightist organizations...
...labor force annually, net. Now keep in mind that the population increase in Greece is eighty-five thousand per annum, net. The reproduction rate is eighty-five thousand. But emigration is a hundred thousand now, it's nearer that number again. It had reached the number under the rightist government of Karamanlis, and it's back again. It means many things for the nation, but for them it means relief on the unemployment rate-this is an escape valve. Let the Greek go to Germany, to Canada, to Australia to find a job. And they're losing, of course...
Unfortunately, the Greek resistance movement as a whole is now almost hopelessly fragmented. Andreas and the Pan-Hellenic Liberation Movement (PAK) which he heads are only one among an assortment of rightist, monarchist, liberal, and leftist groups which have failed to unite on their antipathy to the regime...