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...face of Monday's act of international aggression and flagrant violation of the 1960 Cyprus Independence Treaty by a desperate and unpopular dictatorship, it is deplorable that the United States government has done relatively little to uphold its obligation to support democracy throughout the world. Our government has not seen fit either to condemn Greek interference and the new Cypriot government--led by a confessed murderer and terrorist whose loyalty and subservience to Athens is unquestionable--or to support, as Britain has done, Makarios's pleas for world powers to "assist the struggle against the rebellion and preserve the independence...
Blot on Justice, an ironic tragi-comedy for which Richard Nixon recreates his role as the biggest fool who ever ran a country, is continuing its unpopular run at the White House. Dick has added some new lines to the show, some that'll stop you dead in your tracks. In one scene Nixon calls the conviction of John Ehrlichman "a blot on justice." That's sort of like Adolf Hitler calling Eichmann's conviction "a crime against human decency." Just another example of Dick's fantastic sense of humor ("peace with honor" is still his funniest line, though). This...
Third Position. During his first two terms, Peron stripped the political power of the hated latifundistas, the landowning oligarchy that had dominated Argentine politics. He moved against unpopular foreign business interests by having the state buy the British-owned railways and ITT-owned telephone system. In foreign affairs he was the first postwar advocate of nonalignment, urging a "third position" as an alternative to joining the blocs led either by the U.S. or the Soviet Union. He conducted a vociferous anti-U.S. campaign, alleging that there was a "gigantic North American plot" to seize Cuban sugar, Bolivian tin, Chilean...
James Fred Hofheinz, 36, won only a paper-thin victory last January to become mayor of Houston, America's sixth largest city (pop. 1,233,000), but that has not prevented him from making some unpopular decisions. A Ph.D. in economics and son of Astrodome King Roy ("Judge") Hofheinz, he has raised property taxes 81/2% and water
...could go further, into the works of Arnold Toynbee, unpopular today with professional historians, but in fact a highly perceptive social and political critic, as well as the author of a powerful claim that religious faith provides the chief cultural foundation for civilization. Throughout the horrible years of the still-continuing Indochina War, Toynbee's warning cry for peace has been heard alongside those of the Berrigans and the Quakers and the various experts on Communism who could see that the most damaging and unwelcome intrusion in Southeast Asia was that of Western colonialism. If one looks for the origins...