Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have been hoping to provoke retaliation, thus providing an excuse to renew ground war against South Korea. The most likely explanation is that they resented U.S. intelligence operations, feared that the Americans were learning too much and saw an easy way to discourage the flights while scoring a propaganda coup...
RATHER like a stern father rewarding good behavior, Premier George Papadopoulos last week returned several previous liberties to the Greek people. He was observing both the Easter season and the second anniversary of the coup that ousted the previous government and brought Papadopoulos and his fellow army colonels to power. He was also trying to head off criticism of the Greek regime from the NATO ministers' meeting in Washington. Announced the Prime Minister: 1) freedom of assembly and association will be restored; 2) homes will be off limits to policemen without warrants; 3) press censorship will be reviewed...
Small-Town Morality. In sophisticated Athens, such sermonizing is glumly greeted. Few politicians from other parties have joined the colonels since their coup. Most refer to them as steno-kephalos, or narrow heads. Athens wits insist that Nikolaos Makarezos was selected to oversee the economy as Minister of Coordination because he was the colonel who knew how to add and subtract. Retired diplomat and Nobel laureate Georges S. Seferiades laments the "state of enforced torpor." But out in the stony, sun-washed countryside beyond Athens, the colonels' austerities are better received...
...hamlets of fewer than 200 people. From such towns and their debilitating poverty came Papadopoulos, Pattakos, Makarezos and the remainder of the nearly 300 nonEstablishment army officers who made the revolution. "We were all so poor," says Secretary-General of Interior Ioannis Ladas,one of the participants in the coup, "that we called Papadopoulos 'the rich man' because his father was a schoolteacher." The colonels understand the towns and despise the glib and loose culture of cities. They intend to save Greece with old-fashioned country morality...
Startling News. But in the new Italian film Colpo di Stato (Coup d'Etat), the vote never comes in for the government. Playing to packed houses throughout the country, Colpo di Stato gives a fictional view of the Italian general election of 1972. When LILY brings the startling news that the Communists have won, no one is more astonished than the Communists themselves...