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Caramanlis, however, does not have a completely free hand. The Greek military still looms as a potent ar biter of the government's ac tions, particularly in the sensitive negotiations over Cyprus. Many military men remain strongly committed to eventual enosis, and the officers may be tempted to oust the new Premier if he concedes too much to Turkey and the Turkish Cypriots...
When Constantine Caramanlis flew off to exile in Paris in 1963 after a stinging defeat at the polls, his departure from Greek politics reminded many of Charles de Gaulle's huffy retreat to Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises after the French liberation. As one of his parting shots, the former Greek Premier told an audience, with more than a touch of Gaullist hubris: "The true political leader does not need the people. The people need the true political leader...
...Paris, Caramanlis adroitly remained aloof from the day-to-day infighting of Greek politics, but he kept in close touch with developments in Athens and no one ever doubted that he was only biding his time until Greece would one day see fit to call him back. When the call finally came last week, he was both ready and willing. Even his old political opponents agreed that "Costa" Caramanlis was the only man who could rally the country behind him. Explained Constantine Mitsotakis, an exiled leader of the Center Union Party and one of his old opponents: "Caramanlis embodies...
...lone wolf who does not make too many friends," says his friend Helen Vlachos, an exiled Athens publisher now living in London. She adds: "Caramanlis is not, in the Greek way, familiar. But he knows exactly the character of the Greek people, and he knows how to make himself respected and obeyed...
...Greek friends attribute Caramanlis' cool personality to the fact that he is not really a man of the Mediterranean but of sober northern Greece, where temperaments are less ebullient. The son of a Macedonian schoolteacher who died when Constantine was 18, he went to work to support the family, selling insurance to pay his way through law school in Athens. "Life was rough for us," he later recalled. "I was determined to succeed in my studies to show my gratitude to my family, and to be able to defend people, peasants and shepherds, who were even more unfortunate than...