Word: junta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Andreas Papandreou, the leading figure of the Greek political left, has posed one question ceaselessly ever since his exile by the military junta which now rules his country: Why is it that the Greek people did not rise in large numbers to crush the dictatorship and restore democratic rule...
Today, of course, the country remains in the grip of the regime. But, as Andreas Papandreou suggested in a recent interview, the survival of the dictatorship cannot be laid to the apathy or disinterestedness of the people whom it rules. The junta persists because the traditional strength of the right in Greece had been buttressed by American support...
...true that the Palace tolerated minor shifts in the political colorations of successive regimes, but with the power to move troops and call elections Paul dominated the political scene. This would still be the case today with Constantine if the colonels had not pre-empted the royal junta with a coup of their...
...expected the coup to come from the generals, the king's junta. We did not know of the existence of a group within the junta-this is the particular group of Papadopoulos, colonel level, more or less-within the broader IDEA ["The Sacred Alliance of Greek Officers"]. And we were somewhat relaxed concerning the period in question because we had information from this junta-that is to say, there were some people that were informing us-and we knew that they did not have the prospect of any coup in April. They were building up to it, but they...
Point number one is, who were the men who made the coup? What are they like? Who are they? First is Papadopoulos. There were five men, by the way, that were the top command. The junta itself is small, the junior junta, probably included no more than 180 officers all told-of junior rank-and five men were in command. Now who are the five...