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...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 100,000 people, including civil servants, judges, generals and university professors, who were appointed by the junta during its repressive seven-year reign have been dismissed by the Caramanlis government, but only about 50 face criminal charges. Under a parliamentary bill passed unanimously earlier this month, more than 250 army officers plus 150 ministers and top civil servants could be brought to trial-including the present Foreign Minister, Dimitrios Bitsios. Fearing...
...Managing Director Johannes Witteveen, that has been in operation since last June. Witteveen II, as the bigger model is already known, would be funded by borrowing from OPEC nations at commercial bank rates. Countries having trouble paying for the oil they import would be given three-to seven-year loans at interest rates varying with ability...
...Corfu. Socialist Party Supporter George Romeos has proposed that the Corfu palace be turned into a university. In an outburst of republican ardor, Center Union Party Member Antonis Iassonides suggested that "there would be no great difference if it were blown up." Although Constantino is anxious to end his seven-year exile, Caramanlis has advised that "it would not be very wise" for him to return "before some time goes...
Died. Lucio Cabañas, 37, Mexican guerrilla and folk hero; of wounds suffered in a gun battle with Federates; in the Sierra Madre del Sur above Acapulco. In a seven-year campaign of bank robberies, kidnapings, and slayings, Cabañ⅞as, a Communist, won the sympathy of the dirt-poor marijuana growers of Guerrero state and acquired a mystique reminiscent of Emiliano Zapata...
...last time Baylor won the South-west Conference--50 long years ago--was closer to Custer's last stand than to 1974. Clearly the shock team of the Year of Upsets, the Bruins upended not only Daddy Darrell Royal's seven-year hegemony in the Cotton Bowl--some thought it should be renamed the Horny Bowl, after his Texas Longhorns--but gave superpower Oklahoma its only good game of the season...