Word: junta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Greeks observed their Orthodox Easter, which the Julian calendar places a week later than in the West this year, they also marked the end of their first year under military rule. To celebrate the occasion, the junta planned military parades, ordered flags flown from every building and issued new gold and silver coins bearing its symbol: the shadow of a soldier against the background of a phoenix rising from the ashes. The regime of Colonel-turned-Premier George Papadopoulos hinted that it would make some surprise announcements, perhaps including an amnesty for many of its 2,500 political prisoners...
...furor was set off by Amnesty International, a London-based organization, in a detailed report compiled by investigators who recently spent four weeks in Greece. The investigators charged that some of the junta's prisoners have been subjected to systematic tortures, including beatings on the soles of the feet and electric shocks to the genitals. The British government immediately buttressed the report by declaring its belief that prisoners have indeed been inhumanely treated...
...Cross considers only one of the three camps suitable for long-term confinement, has protested against the overcrowding and lack of proper sanitary facilities in the other two. The government also holds several hundred prisoners who have been arrested since the coup on such charges as distributing anti-junta leaflets and planting homemade bombs in or near government buildings. They are imprisoned in Athens, and most of the charges of torture refer to them...
...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...
...victory was a great one for Junta, a team leader in every sense. In four years of play against Yale he won eight out of eight singles and doubles matches and played first man on four victorious teams. It came as no surprise that in 1958 Dale Junta won the William J. Bingham Award, Harvard's highest athletic honor...