Word: coups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Coup & Counter-Coup Sir: Your cover story on Greece and its besieged King [April 28] was excellent-objective in treating the King and the decent men who decided to save their country from Communism. The free world will be happier if fewer Castros take over; the Papandreous are worse than Fidel...
...writings, you would know he is no more a "leftist" than the younger Hubert Humphrey, in whose alma mater Papandreou taught economics between Harvard and Berkeley. By this semantic smear you justify another U.S.-subsidized rightist regime rejected by the populace in national elections. Your version of the coup imperils the life of Andreas Papandreou in a cynical "treason" trial...
...Minister to the Premier. The plot had been in the works for two years and involved 300 of the Greek army's 8,000-man officer corps. The date for the take-over was decided, said Colonel Papadopoulos, by intelligence reports that the Communists intended to launch a coup of their own last weekend. Not many Greeks believed that story...
...assisted Papadopoulos in the coup and share power with him in the new government are Brigadier General Stylianos Pattakos, 54, who as Minister of the Interior is in charge of security and moral uplift, and Colonel Nicholas Makarezos, fiftyish, who will run-or try to run-Greece's economic affairs. The triumvirate nudged into the background Lieut. General Gregorios E. Spandidakis, 57, the former army chief of staff who was recruited after the coup had already started in order to ensure top-level army cooperation. Likewise, Premier Constantine Kollias emerged as nothing more than a civilian front...
King's Dilemma. Curiously, the fiery, fiercely independent Greeks raised not a bit of resistance to the coup, and there did not even seem to be much resentment against the takeover. Students, who only a few weeks ago had marched in the streets, now sat around talking idly. There were no signs that anyone was taking to the hills. Of course, soldiers were still much in evidence, and the air force buzzed cities and towns to show its solidarity with the army...