Word: countercoups
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Constantine, 27, who fled to Rome after his abortive countercoup last December, spends his days waiting and watching Greece from a two-room business suite at the Eden. He lives with the increasing fear not only that he will not be invited to return to his throne but that Greece's ruling junta might do away with the monarchy altogether. The Greeks are not notoriously pro-monarchy to begin with, and the junta has skillfully kept Constantine in an ambivalent position as to his eventual fate. This situation has caused the King to remain silent and mostly...
There was certainly nothing irresolute in the way the Greek junta put down King Constantine's feckless attempt at a countercoup. When it comes to less pressing matters, however, the junta is subject to rule by committee- with all the divisions, hesitations and compromises that that implies. The shadowy power behind the top three leaders is the Revolutionary Committee, composed of 38 young officers who pass on most of the government's decisions. Because this council is divided into moderate and hard-line factions, the junta last week seemed to be somewhat uncertain and confused about just what...
...been sworn into their new offices in a mass ceremony, the junta prepared to present to the country a draft of the new constitution that it has been preparing. The King had been shown a copy in Rome, to which he had fled after the failure of his inept countercoup, and apparently he found it palatable. The junta has also promised to announce the date for a plebiscite on the constitution-another move that would enable the King to save face. The most probable route for the King's return now seems to be through his sister, Princess Irene...
...banned mini skirts and beatniks' beards, clamped an iron censorship on the press, and sent hundreds of Greeks to prison on such charges as "speaking ill of the authorities" and playing the music of out lawed leftist composers. Constantine waited, hoping for the proper moment to spring a countercoup that would oust the junta and re-establish parliamentary rule in Greece...
...appointed as temporary regent Lieut. General George Zoetakis, who was sworn in by Archbishop Leronymos, formerly the chaplain of the royal family and the King's personal confessor. Pictures of the King and Queen, which had been taken down from government offices in the first hours of the countercoup, were put back in their accustomed places. Orthodox priests were ordered to retain the passages about the King and royal family in their Sunday prayers...