Word: junta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...makeup of the junta remained something of a mystery. The new President was a relatively unknown army officer, Lieut. General Phaedon Gizikis (who was promoted to full general three days after the coup). But he did not seem to be a particularly forceful figure; in fact he went out of his way to announce, after taking the oath of office, that "I have no personal ambition." The new Cabinet was composed of civilian rightists who had been rounded up quickly after the takeover; some were unknowns and some were has-beens...
Apparently the most powerful member of the junta-and almost certainly the mastermind of the coup-was Brigadier General Dimitrios loannidis, head of the military police...
...least-by opposing the coup. The Administration had been pleased by Papadopoulos' recent promises of free elections, and by his acceptance in principle of the next phase of the U.S. Navy's plans to use Greece as a "home port" for the Sixth Fleet. Whether the new junta will go along with the plan is not yet known, though Androutsopoulos has already made it clear that Greece will remain in NATO...
...more immediate problem for the junta is how to broaden the base of its support at home. Early reports suggested that Gizikis might call upon King Constantine to return from exile. At week's end the King was still at Claridge's, his favorite London haunt, refusing comment. There were also reports -from Paris, but significantly not from Athens-that the junta was negotiating with former Premier (1955-63) Constantine Caramanlis, now 66, to return to Greece and join the government...
...military police force-the feared ESA-loannidis was not seen by the public even at the swearing-in ceremony of Phaedon Gizikis, the colorless army general who is Greece's new President. He did not really have to, since it is loannidis and not Gizikis who runs the junta...