Word: constantino
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This week TIME'S Nation section carries two wide-ranging interviews, one with Watergate Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski, the other with Vice President-Designate Nelson Rockefeller. The World section contains an extended interview with Constantino Caramanlis -one of the first that Greece's Premier has given to an American journalist since the military junta resigned under pressure last July. In recent weeks TIME has run interviews with a host of world figures, including Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat and Polish Communist Party...
With Ankara in clear command of all the territory it apparently wanted, the wheels of diplomacy, which had been stopped by the Aug. 14 breakdown of the Geneva talks, once again began turning. Cyprus President Glafkos Clerides, the Greek leader, flew to Athens to consult with Premier Constantino Caramanlis, while Clerides' opposite number on the Turkish side, Rauf Denktaş, returned from Ankara after similar consultations with Premier Ecevit. The U.S. and Britain, meanwhile, were feverishly working behind the scenes to persuade Athens and Ankara to come to some kind of agreement...
Frustrated by its inability to aid the ethnic Greeks on the distant island against Turkey's blatant aggression, the new democratic government of Premier Constantino Caramanlis angrily denounced its NATO allies, particularly the U.S., for not intervening. In a move that may permanently weaken the West in the eastern Mediterranean (see following story), Athens summarily pulled its forces out of the NATO alliance. "NATO is dispensable," Caramanlis, 67, said in a grand De Gaulle-like gesture of independence. "It used us, but when we needed it, it closed its eyes...
There can hardly have been two distant cities whose fate was, for good and ill, more intimately linked than Venice and Constantinople. Soon after the Emperor Constantino the Great established his new Christian Rome by the Bosporus in 334 A.D., Constantinople, the fabled golden city of Byzantium, became the matrix of European civilization. During Constantinople's rise, Rome was a tract of ruins and Venice only a cluster of wattle huts on a lagoon mudbank...
...think that Constantino Caramanlis, the new Premier of Greece, is the sort of man with whom we can work. In the past, he has shown he realizes the need for friendship with us and contributed much to it. He may have to do certain things that the Greek people may not easily accept. I assume the Greeks realize that Premier Caramanlis has inherited an accumulation of mistakes for which he is not responsible. The military regime in Athens made it impossible for us to have a dialogue with the Greeks. But now we have a new opportunity...