Word: junta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whether loved or not, the junta led by Colonel-turned-Premier George Papadopoulos has proved two crucial facts beyond doubt: 1) it exercises absolute control over Greece and 2) it is able to do so without the blessing of exiled King Constantine. In recognition of those realities, 13 nations, including the U.S., Britain and the Soviet Union, last week resumed normal relations with the Papadopoulos government...
...document available to four doz en men can be kept secret very long, and last week a number of interested Greeks, including King Constantine in his Rome exile, were poring over a very limited printing. It was a draft of the new Greek constitution that the junta led by Colonel-turned-Premier George Papadopoulos has promised to submit to voters before Sept. 15 as a major step in returning Greece to normal parliamentary rule...
...draft was prepared by a commission of 20 jurists and submitted last month to the junta's 25-man Cabinet, which had hoped to prevent any premature disclosures. But a few copies somehow leaked out, providing at least a provisional glimpse of what Greece's new rulers have in mind for the country. Its major elements...
King Constantine has laid down two major conditions for his return to Greece: 1) the promulgation and adoption of a constitution, and 2) national elections. What he thinks of the present draft, which would limit his once broad powers, is not known. His strongest leverage on the junta has been that foreign governments have continued to recognize him, not the junta-appointed regent, as Greece's legitimate head of state. But at week's end Tur key-Greece's traditional enemy-became the first important nation to extend official recognition to the junta. Some other countries...
...Papandreou, 48, who held U.S. citizenship from 1944 to 1964, was released from an Athens prison by the junta's Christmas Eve amnesty. Last week he flew to Paris, where he denounced the present regime as "repressive and dictatorial," warned it to step aside or face a civil war, and called for the establishment of a nonaligned "progressive" government in Greece...