Word: greekness
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Papadopoulos' power comes chiefly from the support of a couple of hundred zealous junior army officers, who demand nothing less than total reform of Greek political life. They are already pressing Papadopoulos to move into the so-called "second stage" of the revolution, which calls for sacking the civilian Premier, Constantine Kollias, whom the junta reluctantly installed at the bidding of young King Constantine. Next would come the creation of an all-military Cabinet, with Papadopoulos himself as Premier. As far as Papadopoulos is concerned, the post is already his. In a recent chat with Cypriot President Makarios...
...Mikis Theodorakis, 42, the composer best known for his scores for Zorba the Greek and Phaedra. An avowed Communist and leader of the Red-fronting Lambrakis youth movement, Theodorakis eluded the dragnet that rounded up 6,500 Communists in the early hours of the April 21 coup. The sound of his music bugged the junta, and after Theodorakis was finally nabbed last month, Athens buzzed with reports that the police had tortured or even killed him. Last week the junta put their prisoner on display for foreign newsmen. "I have to tell you two things," said Theodorakis, who was dressed...
...initial roundup, he is charged with conspiracy to commit treason. A pair of self-proclaimed "secret witnesses" in the Andreas case have now surfaced in the U.S., courtesy of Ramparts magazine, which, after the usual spate of advance publicity, published their story that agents of the KIP (the Greek CIA) coerced them into giving false testimony against Andreas. The two men, part-time Publisher Kyriakos Diakogiannis and Lawyer Andreas Vachliotis, had offered the story to other U.S. newsmen in Athens in return for air fare to a haven outside Greece. But until they got to Ramparts, they were unable...
Dropping the Ampersand. International Telephone & Telegraph came into being in 1920 when Sosthenes Behn, a young entrepreneur born in the Virgin Islands of Danish-French ancestry (though "Sosthenes" is Greek for "of sound strength"), founded it as a New York-based holding company for several Caribbean telephone companies he had recently acquired. Behn's choice of a corporate name was an unabashed effort to trade on the reputation of the giant American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Behn was successful in creating this confusion; even today, many people think of ITT as the international division of A.T. & T. Behn received...
...Greek consulate described it as a brief, unofficial visit to New York "without fanfare or publicity" by King Constantine, 27, and Queen Anne-Marie, 21, prior to more formal stops in Toronto, Ottawa, Quebec, Montreal and finally Washington to confer with President Johnson. But nothing ever happens without fanfare or publicity when Actress Melina Mercouri gets involved. The Greek star, relieved of her citizenship and property because of her criticism of Greece's military junta, learned that the royal couple planned to lunch with Secretary-General U Thant. Planting herself like an avenging Athena in front...