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...action are excellent. For one thing, the plan was prepared (by the architectural and planning firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill) for the Central Area Committee, a group of businessmen that a local newspaper calls "Chicago's power elite."* For another, it has the blessing of Chicago's strongman, Mayor Richard Daley, who wants to leave office with the city firmly pointed toward a prosperous future...
...Athens, the atmosphere was uneasily calm. For the present, at least, Strongman George Papadopoulos has won out. Said one Western diplomat: "Once the colonels got through the first 24 hours, they were home free." If the mutiny had spread throughout the armed forces, the regime would have been in dire straits...
With these ringing phrases, Libyan Strongman Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, 31, last April unleashed what he calls a "People's Revolution." Designed to expand his military dictatorship into a nationwide grass-roots movement, it so far has spawned more than 400 "people's committees" in villages, towns, factories and schools-and more are being formed daily. TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn visited Libya and cabled this assessment of Gaddafi's most recent efforts to transform his oil-rich but backward nation...
...pilot last month, Lon Nol declared a "state of danger" and assumed full dictatorial powers, which did little to increase his popularity among war-weary Cambodians. U.S. officials argued that Lon Nol should get rid of his younger brother, Lon Non, who had become the regime's unofficial strongman. Last week Lon Nol bowed to pressure and accepted his brother's resignation, but the gesture means little, since Lon Non is expected to stay on as the ailing President's closest adviser...
...toppled in a 1963 coup that had active U.S. encouragement. Cambodia has the somewhat mystical Lon Nol, paralyzed on his left side as the result of a 1971 stroke, and his younger brother Lon Non, a vain and ruthless army general. Lon Non is now the regime's strongman, having won a power struggle with a rival whom most U.S. officials still regard as the only effective administrator in Cambodia, Lieut. General Sisowath Sirik Matak...