Word: helens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HELEN ELIZABETH BEATTIE Brooklyn...
...HELEN P. BOLLINGER...
Afraid of the Dentist. Kanellopoulos' remarks, while by far the most significantly defiant to date, were not the most scathing. That honor was left to Helen Vlachos, 55, the acid-tongued Athens publisher who closed down her two newspapers to protest the junta-imposed censorship. In an interview with the Italian daily La Stampa, she was asked whether she was afraid of the consequences of her defiance. Replied Helen: "I'm more afraid of the dentist than I am of Colonel Papadopoulos." She then called the members of the ruling junta "simple people, a bit ignorant...
...junta could not take the gibes, and Helen Vlachos was arrested. She was charged with insulting the authorities and disobeying military orders, for which she could get a maximum of eight years in prison, and released pending a trial before a military tribune, probably later this month. Nothing was known of the fate of Information Minister Papaconstantinou...
...Helen Suzman is the only member of the South African Parliament who has consistently opposed the government's apartheid policies. After 15 years in Parliament, she has amassed an impressive record of runins with the Afrikaners and remains the only visible liberal hold-out against one of the world's most reactionary regimes...