Word: junta
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...blessing of the Greek Orthodox Church. Premier Constantine Kollias and the chief Ministers were sworn into office by Chrysostomos, the Primate of Greece, and one of the new government's first decrees was an order solemnly commanding Greece's young people to attend church. Last week the junta's reforming zeal turned on the church itself. With a curt de cree, the government dismissed the 86-year-old Chrysostomos and the twelve bishops of the Holy Synod, the church's highest governing body. In as the new Primate went Archimandrite leronymos Kotsonis, a professor of canon...
...dethroned for committing adultery with his housemaid. In 1965, after the bishops became embroiled in a violent public scramble for wealthy sees, the civilian government of Premier Stephanos Stephanopoulos stepped in and ordered the Assembly of Bishops to stop shuffling the sees to the highest-bidding bishops. The junta justified last week's invasion of church affairs on the grounds that it was trying to make the church more attractive to Greece's young people...
Hiqh Treason. The junta arrested a handful of youths in Piraeus for scribbling antigovernment slogans on walls and sentenced six persons in Larissa to jail terms of 13 months to five years for speaking unfavorably of Greece's new masters. It scheduled for this week the trial of one of its star prisoners, Leftist Andreas Papandreou, 48, who is accused of conspiring to commit high treason as the alleged leader of the Aspida plot. There was also an indication that Andreas' father, former Premier George Papandreou, might be brought to trial for treason. An approved rightist daily...
Editor's Protest. For the moment, the King and his subjects were stuck with the junta. When an earthquake leveled villages in the Pindus Mountains, some 150 miles north of Athens, King Constantine flew there to comfort the 16,000 homeless people-accompanied by General Pattakos. The trip buttressed the impression the junta wishes to convey: that the King is on their side. Actually, many Greeks, including the King, feel that the junta as it now exists is not likely to endure, and that one strong man will eventually emerge as dictator. It is with that man that...
...home to Tatoi and had his first food since the night before: an apple. In the evening he returned to Athens for the swearing-in of Kollias. But he refused to speak on the radio or endorse the coup in any way. When Papadopoulos produced a speech that the junta wanted the King to deliver to the nation, Constantine bridled. "Stand at attention!" he snapped. "Who gave you the impression I was going to speak? Not only that, it's badly written. Take it back...