Word: greeke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reaching a settlement on Cyprus. The cutoff was enacted last fall by an enraged Congress, following an invasion of the island by Turkish forces using American arms. Its purpose was to pressure Ankara into withdrawing its troops from Cyprus and allowing the resettlement of the 200,000 refugees (mostly Greek Cypriots) who were left homeless...
Aristotle Socrates Onassis, 69, is indisputably king of what passes today for the Jet Set. Despite a few minor financial reverses, the swarthy Greek tycoon still has a fortune estimated at up to $500 million, based on a worldwide shipping and commercial empire. That permits him the luxury of enjoying lavish residences in several countries, his own private island of Skorpios in the Ionian Sea, and probably the world's most formidable private yacht, the 325-ft. Christina. Above and beyond that, he is the husband of the world's most publicized beauty-Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis...
During his three-month stay on the small Aegean island of Kea, George Papadopoulos, former head of the Greek military dictatorship that was toppled last July, became obsessed with a fanciful scenario. "We will be granted amnesty," Papadopoulos would tell the four junta leaders who shared his exile. "We will stand for Parliament. We will be elected. And finally we shall rule again...
...French-Algerian film Z-based on the 1963 assassination of a popular left-wing member of the Greek Parliament and banned by the junta when it was released in 1969-is now being shown in Athens for the first time. In the past five weeks a record 500,000 have seen it. When the film's hero, a young, tenacious prosecutor, penetrates an official cover-up and indicts six police officials for complicity in the murder, the audience almost invariably responds with a frenzy that verges on blood lust...
Antijunta Sentiment. At the invitation of the Caramanlis government, former BBC Director-General Sir Hugh Greene is doing a survey of Greek television and recommending ways to move the medium away from the staple fare of junta days: reruns of U.S. situation comedies. The army still controls one of Greece's two channels, but Parliament is now debating legislation to release it from the military's grip...