Word: greek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Defense Secretary Clifford has admitted that America is supplying the Greek regime with large amounts of munitions. He said that no matter how repugnant the regime's politics are to the U.S., the regime will continue to receive such aid because of its strategic place in the fight against communism...
Gigantic signs reading "Nai" (Yes) are plastered all over the majestic Greek countryside, part of the regime's efforts to get the populace to approve the constitution...
...step toward ending the junta's hold on Greece, the next move is nowhere in sight. Under the new constitution, elections may not be held without the presence in Greece of King Constantine, who spent his first summer in exile aimlessly resort-hopping in Italy and Sardinia. Few Greeks expect the government to allow him to return soon, and Papadopoulos last week brusquely refused to set a date for elections. The Premier made it clear that he was in no hurry to return Greece to the perils of democracy. "We intend to be the shepherds of the Greek people...
...Latin American flavor and a classical-tinged guitar backing. That musical hybrid is José Feliciano. In recent weeks his single release of Light My Fire and his LP entitled Feliciano! have both spun high on the bestseller charts. He has drawn cheering, sellout crowds to performances at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles and Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. He seems to be in demand everywhere, for television shows, movie sound tracks, personal appearances...
Three archetypal murderers crisscross their dual pilgrimages, bent on savagely having waste the inhabitants of the primitive countryside. Irrational and unexplained, the murderers rise up like dream figures, as relentlessly hounding as the Furies. The country people become a Greek chorus, polarized between suspicion and curiosity, innate generosity and indifferent cruelty. McCarthy captures the intimate tonalities of their simple speech...