Word: greeks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hellenic-American is written by a handful of graduates from Harvard and other Eastern Universities. None are journalists, and all have other full-time occupations. With limited financial backing of the Freedom committees, the group acquired the two-year-old paper, added a four page section in Greek, and a new title and goal for the paper: Free Nation...
...United States exerts considerable influence over Greek domestic politics, and its policies have been ambivalent. Massive U.S. military aid (about $70 million annually) and tacit support of the King against the majority's wishes helped make last April's coup possible; now the Administration has apparently delivered an ultimatum to the junta to restore constitutional freedoms within a specified time...
...King, who is engaged in a power struggle with junta leader Papadopoulos, recently asked the U.S. for a complete resumption of military aid. By complying with the King's personal request, the U.S. would undoubtedly help him to regain much control over the junta dominated Greek army. The action might even lead to the junta's downfall, since the army is dependent on U.S. (and NATO) funds, weapons, and spare parts...
...Administration appears to favor such a course, but unfortunately, a new government controlled by the King would be neither democratic nor ultimately stable. For this reason, Greek Americans in major cities, usually near academic communities, have formed Committees for Democracy and Freedom in Greece to pressure Congress and the Administration against the junta or any royalist constitution that would not restore all political liberties and free elections. These committees, well aware of the King's anti-democratic practices in the prejunta period, are lobbying against further U.S. alliances with the King. A guiding voice in this anti-junta movement...
...Hellenic-American is significant because with the exception of one small publication at Berkeley, no other Greek-American paper has aggressively opposed the junta. An amazing and saddening phenomenon has been the mellowing, almost warm, attitude of Greek-American newspapers towards the junta, not to mention their respect for the King. With this gaping hole in communication, The Hellenic-American has to perform several functions: pressure the Administration, report otherwise unattainable news from Greece, provide in-depth analyses of diplomatic pressures, and link activities of Greeks...