Word: aspida
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Dates: during 1965-1965
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...conservative Defense Minister wanted to investigate Aspida's leftists further, but Premier Papandreou said no. Instead, he named two colonels from the K.Y.P. to purge right-wing army leadership, which he indicated he suspected of plotting a coup against him. Garoufalias crisply refused to take his orders from the two colonels, and so Papandreou decided that Garoufalias...
Shield on Cyprus. The conflict dates back to last May, and oddly enough it began in Cyprus. There, General George Grivas, commanding the Greek-controlled National Guard, reported to the King and Defense Minister Petros Garoufalias, 64, his discovery of a secret army-officer organization called Aspida (shield). Aspida, said Grivas, was a nationalistic leftist movement, one of whose aims was Greece's withdrawal from NATO. It appeared to be connected with K.Y.P., the Greek CIA, and to have been extended to Cyprus in November 1964. It was about this time that Andreas Papandreou, the Premier...