Word: junta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much as it distrusted the Turks, the Athens regime looked on the archbishop as the immediate enemy. The violently anti-Communist regime in Athens was suspicious of the archbishop's dealings with Moscow and the support he received from the 40,000-member Cypriot Communist Party. The junta reviled him as "Red," and worried that he would open Cyprus to the Soviet navy. In recent months, the anti-Makarios campaign was stepped up, and posters denouncing Makarios appeared on walls in Athens...
...Contrary, State Department reaction this week has characterized the happenings in Cyprus as "internal strife," U.S. officials have insisted that they believe Makarios's overthrow was a result of his unpopularity and not of action on the junta's part...
...there is no evidence that the State Department even took up the matter with Greek officials. Since U.S. funds and hardware support the Greek junta, an American warning about such action surely would have carried weight and may have prevented a senseless action that may still bring all out war in the Mediterranean...
TOLERENCE of the Athens junta and its subversive aggression points out an irreconcilable contradiction in American policy: The government of the people of the United States supports values and actions that directly oppose those which Americans pride themselves in upholding...
...which is Hemingway's The Spanish Earth; Rossif's covers the most ground of any of them. Sir John Gielgud and Irene Worth narrate. This is the third in a series of political movies to be presented by the Greece Action Group to help raise money for the junta's victims, and while Rossif's movie isn't as directly relevant to the fight against the Greek dictatorship as Z was, the connection between what went on in Spain 35 years ago and what's going on in the Mediterranean now is anything but farfetched. Spain marked...