Word: junta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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National elections were promised by the end of next year. The worth of such elections, however, was questioned by opposition politicians. "Plebiscites have a meaning to people who are free," said John Zigdis, a former minister who was jailed for 18 months in 1970 by the junta. "For a bound people, plebiscites are an insult. It is an attempt to make them collaborate in the forging of their chains...
According to junta spokesmen, the plot called for "as many as possible" of the Greek navy's ten destroyers and seven submarines to rendezvous at the Aegean island of Syros. From there, an ultimatum would be issued to the junta in Athens: either restore democracy or face a blockade of Greece's two principal ports. Piraeus and Salonika...
There is little doubt that popular sentiment against Papadopoulos' regime has risen sharply in recent months. Amid charges of corruption in high places, junta favoritism to business interests, accelerating inflation and the decreasing value of the drachma (which is tied to the dollar), student unrest broke into the open this spring. Last month, exiled former Premier Constantine Caramanlis, 66, issued a bitter broadside from Paris against the regime, calling for its resignation and the return of the King to oversee the restoration of democracy...
...golf (with balls supplied by Richard Nixon) or sailing in an assured, near professional style (he was an Olympic gold medalist in 1960). Deadly serious about his future, King Constantine, 33, has conscientiously kept up with Greek politics since the failure of a 1967 attempt to oust the junta forced him to flee his homeland...
Despite the benefit of a $580,000 annual allowance provided by the junta. Constantine has kept a deliberately low profile in Rome. The King, his pretty, temperamental Danish-born wife, Queen Anne-Marie, 26, and their three small children live in a modest but handsomely situated rented villa on the Via di Porta Latina. Queen Mother Frederika, 56, and Constantine's sister, Princess Irene, 31, live in a more secluded villa north of Rome. Except for occasional appearances at horse shows and the like, all avoid Rome's lively social scene...