Word: coups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...monarch, Constantine thus became a besieged king, caught between the demagoguery and displeasure of Greece's leftists and the impetuous action of the rightist military. The dilemma was all the more ironic because the military is strongly promonarchist. It constantly invoked the royal name for every action during the coup, and moved to seize power chiefly because it feared that the King's enemies would win the parliamentary elections scheduled for May 28. The generals feared that victory would go to George Papandreou, 79, and his son Andreas, 48, the King's archenemies. The elder Papandreou, who resigned as Premier...
...pushing her son to mix actively in Greek politics instead of counseling him to stay above the battle. Whenever the King's shiny Rolls-Royce is seen outside his mother's villa, the press almost invariably reports it as cloak-and-dagger news. Last week, just before the coup, King Constantine and his wife celebrated Frederika's 50th birthday at a private lunch at the villa, where she lives with Princess Irene, 24. Her other daughter, Sophia, is married to Juan Carlos, son of the pretender to the Spanish throne, Don Juan...
...become their king. George I lasted on the throne for 50 years?until an assassin's bullet ended his reign. His son, Constantine I, had equally bad luck, was twice deposed by the politicians. Then came George II ("the unsmiling King"), who lost the throne to a republican coup in 1924, remained in exile for eleven years before returning, and went into exile again shortly after the Italians and Germans invaded Greece in World...
...people's revolution." To this the King replied: "If Papandreou starts a revolution, I will start the counter-revolution." Unable to get enough votes to form a government, Kanellopoulos dissolved Parliament, set the elections for May 28?and thus, wittingly or unwittingly, cleared the stage for last week's coup...
Something for Everyone. The man who led the coup was Lieut. General Gregorios Spandidakis, 57, the army chief of staff, who announced that a "royal decree" had suspended eleven articles of the Greek constitution?even though Constantine was asleep in bed when the coup took place. The army won support from the navy and air force, and the military set out to form a new government. In a brief and simple ceremony, the new rulers were sworn into office by Chrysostomos, the Archbishop and Primate of Greece. To show his disapproval, King Constantine did not attend the ceremony, refused...