Word: aegean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enormous neon sign that outshines even the gleaming, floodlit marble of the Parthenon atop the Acropolis. The sign spells out the Greek word NAÍ in letters 30 ft. high. All over Greece, on walls, buses, taxis, telephone poles, billboards, farm carts, beach huts and whitewashed windmills in the Aegean isles, posters urge: NAÍ. Next week 5 million Greeks will vote NAÍ (yes) or ÓXI (no) in a referendum on a new constitution drafted by the military junta that has ruled the country since it seized power 17 months ago. Even the most cautious analysts predict...
Most of the prisoners, including 440 hard-core Communists, are kept in three camps on two barren Aegean islands, where they are allowed to receive mail and packages from their families. According to reports by the International Red Cross, they are also allowed to go outside for exercise at least once daily, are fed edible food and receive adequate medical care. Even so, the Red Cross considers only one of the three camps suitable for long-term confinement, has protested against the overcrowding and lack of proper sanitary facilities in the other two. The government also holds several hundred prisoners...
...make certain that his government abided by such precepts. Leftist Composer Mikis Theodorakis (Zorba the Greek), who was arrested four months ago for plotting to overthrow the regime, was released from prison. Two Athenian newsmen were also set free. Even so, some 2,500 prisoners remained on the Aegean islands of Ieros and Yiaros in camps that originally held Communist detainees during the 1946-49 civil...
...Royal Silence. At that point, the hardliners, who are led by Colonel Ioannis Iadas, the chief of internal security, overruled Premier Papadopoulos and scaled down the dimensions of the amnesty. Some 2,500 political prisoners remained in custody, including the hard-core Communists on the prison islands in the Aegean Sea and Leftist Composer Mikis Theodorakis (Zorba the Greek), who, according to Papadopoulos' own words at the press conference, was to have benefited from the amnesty: "He will even write a song for the revolution...
...Grivas incident was explosive. Turkey is angry at Greece's new military rulers for failing to respect the sensibilities of the Turkish minority in Greece by disbanding various Turkish landholding and cultural organizations and for refusing to grant the Turkish air force the right to overfly the Aegean Sea. Coldly assessing the situation, the Turks reckoned that they had the Greeks outgunned (480,000 men under arms and 450 combat aircraft v. Greece's 158,000 men and 250 warplanes) and that moreover, the Greek junta had almost no international support and would be likely to back down...