Word: coups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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King Constantine dramatically announced Sunday that the Greek military junta will allow 20 experts to draw up a constitution within six months. Although it represents the first concession made by the reactionary rules since the coup a month ago, the plan does not guarantee a return to a representative government...
...past experience shows, Constantine is no champion of the democratic process. In fact, he was largely to blame for the military takeover. During the two years before the coup, he stubbornly refused to allow elections in Greece. He cooperated with the right-wing in setting up a series of puppet governments. When the constitution prevented him from postponing elections any longer, he appointed the rightist minority as the caretaker government to run the elections. During its previous tenure in government in 1961, this rightist party had flagrantly rigged the elections. Despite attempts at another manipulation this year, all indications were...
...State Department has refused to apply pressure forcefully or openly against the regime. By controlling the Greek press and radio, the junta has led the urban literate and the rural folk to believe that the U.S. was solidly behind the coup. Secretary McNamara's recent warnings to the Greek minister of defense were misrepresented in the Greece newspapers as "understanding approval...
...demand the death penalty. The new government also released from confinement Andreas' 79-year-old father, former Premier George Papandreou, and promised soon to set free at least half the 6,000 or so suspected Communists who were rounded up in the early hours of the April 21 coup...
Besides pitting Bruhn and Nureyev against each other, the two companies squared off with competing full-length versions of the seemingly inexhaustible classic, Swan Lake. Here the Americans scored an ironic coup, for their production was staged by a premier danseur of the Royal Ballet, David Blair. By going back largely to the seminal 1895 production in St. Petersburg, Blair restored the choreographic brilliance of the work; but he also added dances of his own and reshuffled the story with a knowing eye for drama. The result-handsomely mounted and costumed-was not only the most substantial Swan Lake...