GREECE: No Telltale Tongue

An ex-housepainter named John Politis, 34, was doing all right until he met a girl named Toga. Now he would never walk again without crutches. He would never talk again, either.

Politis joined the Athens Communist Party several years ago and was given a job guarding the premises of the party newspaper. A Year ago he was promoted to the post of district leader in the Lake Koumoundourou area just ten kilometers from Athens.

In his new district was the Cave of Tzeverdeli, where Politis' comrades stored medical supplies and where, sick or wounded...

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