Word: greeke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have tried my best to make a clear distinction. Greek bitterness is not aimed against the American people, the American legislative bodies or the American press. On the contrary, we owe them gratitude. It is aimed against the American Administration, both for its support of the dictatorship and for its pro-Turkey attitude in the Cyprus drama...
...executive power should be reinforced. A stronger executive would enable a government to work far more effectively. Under the old constitution, we needed six months to pass a law. That is absurd. Under such conditions it was nearly impossible for Parliament to produce the kind of legislation the Greek people needed. I tried hard before leaving Greece in 1963 to revise the constitution. I failed. I had a quarrel with the crown and the opposition, and because I failed to revise the constitution I left Greece. I knew that without revising the constitution, democracy here was impossible...
...Ford's leadership, the House voted to cut off further military aid to Turkey. There were mixed reasons for the move: the use of U.S. arms in Turkish attacks on Cyprus; irritation with the Turks over the resumption of poppy planting; pressure from a vocal number of Greek-Americans; and congressional unwillingness to blindly follow Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's recommendations. The Senate had taken the same action, then, under heavy White House arm-twisting, agreed to delay the ban for 60 days. Ford had termed any curtailment "a misguided and extremely harmful measure," since it would...
...Sophie. Eventually, the vivacious queen declared a kind of independence, becoming the adored champion of the cause of home rule for Hungary, traveling incessantly: now to England to ride after hounds, now to Turkey to explore Schliemann's diggings at Troy. She even translated Shakespearean plays into modern Greek. Primping and dieting narcissistically, Elisabeth remained an international beauty until she was 60, when she was killed by an Italian anarchist while boarding a steamer on Lake Geneva...
Died. Athina Niarchos, 45, fifth wife of Greek Shipping Baron Stavros Niarchos and ex-spouse of his arch rival Aristotle Onassis; of an apparent heart attack; at the Niarchos town house in Paris. Blonde, willowy Tina had already been through two marriages (14 years with Onassis, ten with John Spencer-Churchill, now the Duke of Marlborough) before her sensational 1971 wedding to Niarchos: it was just five months after her divorce from the duke and 17 months after the death of her older sister Eugenie, Niarchos' third wife, from what was officially ruled to be an overdose of sleeping...