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During his three-month stay on the small Aegean island of Kea, George Papadopoulos, former head of the Greek military dictatorship that was toppled last July, became obsessed with a fanciful scenario. "We will be granted amnesty," Papadopoulos would tell the four junta leaders who shared his exile. "We will stand for Parliament. We will be elected. And finally we shall rule again...
...this summer's coup in Cyprus, the junta's last president, General Gizikis, invited Caramanlis to take over the collapsing government. Caramanlis retained Gizikis as a figurehead president and, in deference to public sentiment, finally exiled five other members of the junta--strong-man George Papadopoulos included--to the Aegean island of Kea. But his skittish attitude towards punishment of the leaders and instruments of dictatorship, including known torturers, has drawn sharp criticism from the opposition. He did gain credit as being independent of American influence--and soothed people's self-esteem--by taking Greece out of NATO...
Died. Spyridon Marinates, 73, redoubtable dean of Greek archaeologists, who in 1967 unearthed the remains of an ancient city of 20,000 buried beneath volcanic ash on the Aegean island of Thera; of a skull fracture suffered in a fall at the Thera dig site. A center of ancient Minoan culture, Thera was practically wiped out overnight in a massive eruption about 1500 B.C., leading Marinates to surmise, though less strenuously than some of his colleagues, that its destruction was the basis for Plato's account of the lost island of Atlantis...
...island, which lies only 44 miles off its shores, might some day be used as a base against it by a hostile Greek regime. Together with the other Greek islands fringing Turkey's shores, an armed Cyprus, it believes, could cut off major access lanes to the Aegean Sea and the open water of the Mediterranean. With the Greeks claiming waters around the offshore islands, explains Haluk Ulman, an Ecevit foreign affairs adviser, "we felt we couldn't breathe, even in our own waters." At the same time that it settles the Cyprus problem, Ankara would like...
...work and site in the entire show. The white sails, cylinders and arcs simultaneously evoke an archaic temple precinct and a ship, while running a counterpoint to the real spinnakers billowing on the sea below; they turn a flat site, for a moment, into a reminiscence of the Aegean. It becomes increasingly clear that Liberman, along with Mark di Suvero and Clement Meadmore, is one of the three U.S. sculptors best fitted to handle large outdoor projects...