Word: eleni
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...call attention to the plight of 500,000 political prisoners in 60 countries, Amnesty International last week nominated its first "Prisoners of the Year." Those selected: Eleni Voulgari of Greece, who was sent to prison for ten years by the Greek junta for sheltering her Communist brother-in-law; Daniel Madzimbamuto of Rhodesia, an African nationalist leader who was imprisoned without trial four years ago; and Larisa Daniel of the Soviet Union, wife of imprisoned Russian author Yuli Daniel, who was sentenced herself in 1968 to four years of Siberian exile for demonstrating against the Soviet policy of "fraternal...
...Greece have come in recent weeks from two leaders of the right wing. One was formerpremier Kanellopoulos, who is making a calculated effort to appear a defiant leader of the suppressed Greeks. He is too well-known to persecute, too significant to ignore. The other outspoken critic was Mrs. Eleni Vlachou, a conservative newspaper owner who has refused to publish under censorship. When she called the junta "ignorant people," she did not know she would be quoted. Nevertheless, she refuses to deny her statement...
With a nod toward Capitol Hill, where Montana's Mike Mansfield and other Senators have recently been debating the nation's dwindling silver resources, Washington Star Fashion Editor Eleni last week observed, "They keep wondering what's happened to the silver supply. Well, I could tell them. It's all on women's backs...
...whole thing was just a bit much for Eleni Kazantzakis, however. Widow of Nikos Kazantzakis, author of the book on which the movie is based, she angrily responded: "Greeks resent being told that 60 years ago in a Cretan village simple peasants behaved inelegantly toward a dead woman. They forget my dead husband, whose tombstone in Crete was covered with excrement every day for years...