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Then the colonels came back in and asked the King to appoint a new government headed by General Spandidakis. Constantine resisted. "You've succeeded in taking over the country," he said. "At least allow the Premier to be a civilian." To Colonel Papadopoulos he said: "You haven't got the faintest idea of how to run a country. All you can do is direct artillery fire." Eventually, the colonels agreed to accept Constantine Kollias, chief prosecutor in the Greek Supreme Court, as Premier. He was summoned to the Defense Ministry. Said Constantine to Kollias...
...first declared: "This company doesn't want to make a penny from the murder of John Kennedy."* That sold the Kennedys on Harper. Once he had the manuscript and saw in what grim detail it discussed the assassination, Thomas tactfully urged that Bobby and Jackie avoid it and appoint surrogate readers. The go-betweens' suggestions for changes were so demanding that Thomas finally quit listening. Astonished at his independence, Kennedy loyalists attacked Thomas and even now spread cutting stories about him on the cocktail circuit. Bobby Kennedy withdrew a collection of speeches that Harper was scheduled to publish...
Since Papandreous forces in Parliament remained a majority, the King thereafter had to appoint feeble caretaker governments. Papandreou's eventual successor, Stephan Stephanopoulos (who was also arrested last week), succeeded in whittling the Papandreou majority to a bare plurality by forging a coalition of parties. At the same time, the whole country anxiously awaited the opening of the Aspida trial, in which 28 officers were charged with high treason. The raucous proceedings, which began last November and lasted for four months in an Athens court room, finally resulted in March in conviction and prison sentences for 15 of the defendants...
...former status." Atlanta's Arch bishop Paul J. Hallinan, another board member, let it be known that he had opposed Curran's ouster. Boston's Richard Cardinal Gushing announced that he would not condemn Curran. "He must teach all sides. It makes no sense to appoint people to a university board who know absolutely nothing about running a university...
Under the President's scheme, he would appoint a single commissioner and a nine-man council. Johnson has also promised to introduce a constitutional amendment to give the District a voting member in the House and "such additional representatives in the House and Senate as Congress from time to time may provide...