Word: junta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Greece's junta leaders like to think of the country as a patient that requires their constant attention. Last week, as the regime finally made public its long-awaited new constitution, Colonel-turned-Premier George Papadopoulos put on his best bedside manner...
...Greek Parliament, most of whom have since been released. Last week, in an ironic turnabout, Papadopoulos tried to persuade some of the young officers who brought him to power to agree to make public a new constitution for Greece. So far, Papadopoulos, who is now Greece's junta-appointed Premier, has twice been forced to set back the scheduled release date of the document. Even if he manages to present it to the Greek public this week, the delays underscore the private power struggles that tear at the shadowy revolutionary council, whose 38 or so members make the major...
...internal hemorrhaging; in Athens. Son of a Greek oil merchant from Aydin, Turkey, Chrysostomos early became embroiled in Greek nationalist causes, and on several occasions escaped Turkish firing squads when foreign powers intervened. He was elected primate in 1962, only to be ousted last May by the military junta he swore into office a month earlier...
...lines of communication between the King and the regime, though exceedingly taut, remain open. Constantine has two aides with him in exile, and they shuttle between his headquarters and Athens with messages concerning such sensitive subjects as money. So far, the junta has continued to pay 150 servants and drivers who have been kept on at the palace in Athens and at various residences since the King's departure. The junta has put no limit on any personal funds the King might want to take out of Greece. For his own part, though, the King seems eager to show...
...longer he stays away the slimmer become his chances of regaining the throne. As things now stand, the ruling colonels are free to build a government to their own liking, without palace interference, yet with an "absent King" to protect their legal position as servants of the monarchy. The junta still professes loyalty to the monarchy, but it has a different kind of monarchy in mind. Its members are unlikely even to consider Constantine's return until they draw up a new constitution that will severely limit his powers and make him a figurehead. Last week Deputy Premier Stylianos...