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...right-wing government immediately threw Andreas into Athens' dread Averof prison. Freed after eight months, he moved to Stockholm, then to Toronto. It was there that his anti-American and anti-NATO sentiments blossomed. Papandreou loudly claimed that the CIA had engineered the colonels' coup, and blamed Western Europeans for not opposing the military regime more strongly. To Papandreou, Greece's ancient enemy Turkey, also a NATO ally, is more of a threat than the Soviet Union. That notion was reinforced in 1974, when Turkey invaded Cyprus, an independent island nation with a predominantly Greek population...
...also ahead for Hubel and Wiesel is a December trip to Stockholm, for Nobel lectures and award ceremonies. "I don't think [the prize] means anything. I don't take it seriously," the Swedish-born and educated Wiesel says...
...Global figures are elusive because of governmental secrecy and the difficulty in determining dollar equivalents for various armaments and their related support systems. Most authoritative sources, such as U.S. Government reports and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) yearbook, include only officially sanctioned and publicly reported sales of major conventional weapons...
James Tobin, 63, likes to joke about himself as "a discredited Keynesian," in reference to his economics hero, John Maynard Keynes. Last week the mild-mannered Yale economics professor got the last laugh. In Stockholm, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that it was awarding him the 1981 Nobel Prize in Economics. Tobin thus becomes the tenth U.S. citizen to receive the prize since it was first awarded...
...more ideal recipient of the 1981 Nobel Prize for Literature than Elias Canetti, 76, would have to be invented. When the Bulgarian-born novelist, play wright and essayist, with his Einsteinian white mane and mustache, arrives in Stockholm on Dec. 10 to claim the $180,000 award, he will precisely fit the Swedish Academy's taste in laureates. Canetti's sensibilities, like those of last year's winner, Polish Poet Czeslaw Milosz, are survivors of Europe's prewar culture. A poly lingual resident of England, who writes exclusively in a high, lapidary German, he is fashionably...