Word: rule
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Stiff Party Rule. The most prevalent belief in Czechoslovakia is that the long, slow campaign of resistance since August has finally had an effect on national politics. The country's strength, say insiders, lies in an expanding axis of students, workers and intellectuals, who staged meetings, sit-ins and work stoppages to protest the Central Committee's announced intention of returning the country to stiff party rule. Not even optimists are convinced that, in the end, their pressure can reverse Russia's considerable success in crushing Dubcek's reforms. But for the time being, at least...
...nearly a month, Greece has been gripped by a bitter and highly significant struggle. On one side were the hard-lining former military officers, who sought to perpetuate their rigidly moralistic rule. Pitted against them were the more moderate revolutionary leaders, who favored an eventual return to some form of parliamentary government. After a series of shifts and political maneuvers, it is finally clear that the moderates, led by Premier George Papadopoulos, have emerged the winners. Their victory signaled the start of a new chapter in Greece's post-revolutionary development...
...constitution that was overwhelmingly ratified last September. Papadopoulos appointed a commission of jurists and civil servants to draw up the 25 or so laws that are needed to implement the precepts of the constitution. In a nationwide radio address, Papadopoulos promised to ease the country's rigid revolutionary rule and to introduce extensive social re forms. The thrust of his actions in dicated that the initial military phase of the revolution had ended and that Phase 2, which would be political in nature, had now begun...
...would be happy," he said, "if someone got started." But Greece's remaining political leaders, including former Premier Panayotis Kanellopoulos, have refused to cooperate in any way with Papadopoulos. The Premier hopes to convince them that their boycott is only delaying Greece's return to normal parliamentary rule...
Papadopoulos' victory imposes new responsibilities on him. In the past, he has accused the hard-liners of preventing him from moving more quickly toward the re-establishment of parliamentary rule through elections. Now that he has curbed them, he has also eliminated his most convincing excuse for keeping Greece a repressive, and in some ways a brutal, dictatorship 20 months after the revolution...