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...summer palace on the island of Corfu. Socialist Party Supporter George Romeos has proposed that the Corfu palace be turned into a university. In an outburst of republican ardor, Center Union Party Member Antonis Iassonides suggested that "there would be no great difference if it were blown up." Although Constantino is anxious to end his seven-year exile, Caramanlis has advised that "it would not be very wise" for him to return "before some time goes...
...barring his return to the throne. Of the six members of the Glucksburg dynasty who have ruled Greece since 1863,* only one enjoyed an unbroken reign and peaceful death. Among the less fortunate of this ill-starred family were King George I who was assassinated in 1913, King Constantino I who was deposed in 1917 for his failure to support the Allies during World War I, and his son, Alexander, who died in 1920 after being bitten by his pet monkey...
Such a settlement will almost certainly involve some kind of federation between the Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities, perhaps in the form of a union of Swiss-style cantons. Before returning home last week, Makarios conferred in Athens for two days with Greek Premier Constantino Caramanlis and Glafkos Clerides, who has been Acting Cypriot President in his absence. The three leaders reportedly agreed in principle that conditions for a federation should include 1) the right of the 180,000 Greek Cypriot refugees to return to their homes in Turkish-occupied parts of the island; 2) Turkish withdrawal to a territorial...
After almost seven years in exile, King Constantino of Greece awaits a political fate rare even for present-day monarchs. By popular vote, Greek citizens will decide next week whether he should return as the crowned head of a democracy or whether Greece should become a republic, effectively ending a royal tradition of 141 years...
...placed their trust in the man who had returned from exile four months before to lead them out of the dark years of military rule and the debacle of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus. In one of the most impressive mandates ever bestowed on a modern Greek leader, Premier Constantino Caramanlis, 67, and his conservative New Democracy Party swept to victory with 54% of the vote and 220 of the 300 seats in the single-chamber Parliament. "Without bloodshed, without upheavals and finally with the free expression of the will of the people," said Caramanlis after his triumph, "democracy...