Word: greeke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to junta spokesmen, the plot called for "as many as possible" of the Greek navy's ten destroyers and seven submarines to rendezvous at the Aegean island of Syros. From there, an ultimatum would be issued to the junta in Athens: either restore democracy or face a blockade of Greece's two principal ports. Piraeus and Salonika...
...night before the coup was to take place, three destroyer captains who had thrown in with the conspirators witlessly gave the plot away. With their vessels tied up at the tightly guarded Greek naval base in Salamis, the captains told crew members to remain aboard because of "top secret maneuvers" set for the next day. When no men went ashore that night, shore police became suspicious and began questioning the crew. After government officials heard the story about unscheduled maneuvers, the captains were arrested...
...week. "Our colleagues, and some of our best friends, had been arrested. As their commander, I had to make a decision, and I saw before me two choices: I could have taken my ship with its 8,000 rounds of high-explosive ammunition back to Crete or some other Greek island and demanded the release of those officers under threat of blowing the place up. But rather than risk starting a civil war. I chose to bring my ship into Italy and ask for asylum here to tell the world the truth of what is happening in Greece...
...Cambridge University, he has spent much of his time playing wretched rounds of golf (with balls supplied by Richard Nixon) or sailing in an assured, near professional style (he was an Olympic gold medalist in 1960). Deadly serious about his future, King Constantine, 33, has conscientiously kept up with Greek politics since the failure of a 1967 attempt to oust the junta forced him to flee his homeland...
...room," the remodeled library of her Fifth Avenue Manhattan apartment. On the study table were some of Jackie's treasures: some black coral she found while diving near Yucatan, a mushroom on a twig from Angkor Wat, two bronze Egyptian cats and, perhaps revealingly, a string of blue Greek worry beads...