Word: rule
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...their dismay, the radicals found that the majority of West Germany's 282,000 students, who had joined them in countless nonviolent protests in recent months, wanted to back out when physical violence, to others and to themselves, became the rule. In fact, in Munich, where the two riot deaths occurred, moderate students, carrying banners that read STONES ARE NO ARGUMENTS, demonstrated against the Socialist German Student League, which had stirred up the violence. Confronted with failure on all fronts, the radicals, who constitute a well-organized 10% of the West German student body, withdrew to plot...
...Greeks observed their Orthodox Easter, which the Julian calendar places a week later than in the West this year, they also marked the end of their first year under military rule. To celebrate the occasion, the junta planned military parades, ordered flags flown from every building and issued new gold and silver coins bearing its symbol: the shadow of a soldier against the background of a phoenix rising from the ashes. The regime of Colonel-turned-Premier George Papadopoulos hinted that it would make some surprise announcements, perhaps including an amnesty for many of its 2,500 political prisoners...
Protest Movements. Strapped to the table as they are, Greeks at home either tolerate the junta's rule or feel that they are helpless to do anything about it. King Constantine remains in exile in a Rome hotel, with little prospect of returning to Greece soon; about his only public activity recently was to be guest of honor at an international karate contest in Rome's Olympic Village (he holds a black belt). Other Greeks abroad are not, however, so fatalistic; in city after city this week, they protested the military dictatorship. Actress Melina Mercouri, who has made...
More important, Juxon-Smith showed no signs of returning the government to civilian rule, as he had originally promised...
Fellows are theoretically appointed for life, but there is an unwritten rule that they retire at 70. Because Lamont was the Senior Fellow of the Corporation, the Corporation was, in fact, discussing the question of his successor while he was still alive, Pusey said...