Word: easterlies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Greeks observed their Orthodox Easter, which the Julian calendar places a week later than in the West this year, they also marked the end of their first year under military rule. To celebrate the occasion, the junta planned military parades, ordered flags flown from every building and issued new gold and silver coins bearing its symbol: the shadow of a soldier against the background of a phoenix rising from the ashes. The regime of Colonel-turned-Premier George Papadopoulos hinted that it would make some surprise announcements, perhaps including an amnesty for many of its 2,500 political prisoners...
Alarmed by the violence, Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger broke off his Easter vacation in southern Germany and went back to Bonn, where he warned the students to calm down or face the consequences. Meanwhile, in a display of the intertwining relationships between the young European radicals, students staged riots of varying degrees of violence in Rome, Paris and Amsterdam. At week's end, taking advantage of West Germany's troubles, the East German Communist regime issued an ominous warning that it was now barring all senior Bonn officials from traveling to and from West Berlin through its territory...
Coming off a grueling Easter vacation training trip to Jamaica, the team picked up on its undefeated season last fall despite generally sloppy play...
...EASTER SUNDAY SPECIAL (NBC, 11 a.m.-noon). Traditional Easter Sunday service at London's Westminster Abbey...
...Easter Shopping. In the aftermath of King's murder, Lyndon Johnson canceled his plans to fly to Hawaii for consultations with his military and diplomatic advisers on the delicate question of Viet Nam negotiations. Rioting and looting broke out in 62 cities from coast to coast. In manic reaction, the plunder ers went about their business in an almost carnival atmo sphere. Looting-"early Easter shopping," as one Harlem resident called it was the predominant activity, though some ghettos were burned as well...