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...world was appalled by the naming of Nikos Sampson, a gunman for the notorious EOKA movement, as Cyprus' President earlier this year. When the now ousted Greek military junta installed Sampson in place of Archbishop Makarios, it took the first step on its path to ruin. Sad though it may seem, the world appears willing to forget-if not forgive-most crimes of terrorism and to eventually honor those it once called criminal. It must first, however, have some assurance that the terrorist has, to quote French Historian Philippe Vigier, "sheathed his knife" and washed the blood...
General Ches nut said many people were light hearted at the ruin of the great slave owners. He quoted some one: 'They will have no Negroes now to lord it over! They can swell and peacock about and tyrannize now over only a small parcel of women and children, those only who are their very own family...
...would have been hard to ruin this show, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1960. The Radcliffe Grant-in-Aid Society production goes beyond mere competence to provide a satisfying evening of entertainment...
...where rainfall of up to 400 inches a year keeps 40% of the land under water, the rapid change is not appreciated. The oil belongs to Pemex, the state oil monopoly; farmers receive money only for their land and no petroleum royalties. "They are worried that our drilling will ruin their fishing," says a Pemex engineer aboard the Chac, a marine drilling platform named for the Mayan rain god, as two fishermen glide by in a dugout canoe...
Another book about the overanalyzed and all too familiar Nixon Administration? Yes. But this time two CBS television newsmen have sliced through conventional explanations with some offbeat conclusions about what went wrong. The most provocative: the single event that did most to ruin Nixon was, of all things, Chappaquiddick...