Word: greekness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Papandreou's case, the precaution did no good. Anticipating a crackdown, "the Old Fox"-as he is widely known in Greece-slipped out before his arrest a recording of a ringing anti-junta speech to Britain, where the BBC's Greek-language broadcast beamed his defiant words into sets all over Greece...
...eight-minute speech, Papandreou, who was Premier in 1963-65, called on the free world to boycott the junta so that "it will be worthy of the name." At home, he called on the Greek army to reassess its own support of the junta in light of the fact that the ruling colonels had produced no proof of a planned Communist takeover, their rationalization for seizing power. Under Greece's stern martial law, Papandreou's blast was tantamount to treason, but the junta took no further action against him for the time being, ridiculing his statement...
...resisters to the Vietnam war. I did in fact send in my signature, but perhaps too late for publication. May I ask that you now record my name as one of those in support of the Reverend Richard Mumma's statement. Cedric H. Whitman Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature
...night of April 21, 1967, battle-clad Greek soldiers arrested nearly 7,000 politicians and Communist suspects as part of the successful coup that established a handful of unknown army officers as the new rulers of Greece. A year later, more than one-third of those who were spirited away that night still remain in detention, a source of continued embarrassment to the regime of former Colonel George Papadopoulos. Last week an international controversy flared up over how the prisoners are being treated...
...rebuttal, the Greek government categorically denied that it was torturing its prisoners and backed up its case by producing Red Cross reports on the prison camps that, while critical in tone, made no mention of any evidence of torture. Thus satisfied that its innocence was established, the junta announced that henceforth it will bar the prison camps to all foreign investigators except those of the International Red Cross...