Word: averoff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eliminating an Excuse. At least two leading Athens politicians have sought to seize on the developments to resume activity. They are Evangelos Averoff-Tossizza, 58, Foreign Minister in Constantine Karamanlis' conservative government from 1956 to 1963, and Spyros Markezinis, 59, the former leader of the small Progressive Party. Said Averoff, who wants to found an opposition party: "I will continue attacking the regime, but I will do so in a legitimate way, not in a subversive manner." Papadopoulos has seemed content to allow them to make preliminary attempts at organizing parties. "I would be happy," he said, "if someone...