Word: junta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wald said he hopes the committee will make Americans aware that the United States is backing and promoting the new dictatorship by supplying the Greek junta with weapons...
...earlier, when Athens students demonstrated against the convictions of five per sons who had attended a memorial service for the late Premier George Papandreou, who had headed a center-left government. Following that incident, several thousand students occupied the prestigious Polytechnic University. Barricaded inside, they chanted "Down with the junta," "Americans out," and "Death to Papadopoulos." They set up a radio transmitter. Despite government jamming efforts, they broadcast pleas to Athenians to launch a general strike and oust the government. One neophyte announcer, his voice shaking with emotion, shouted: "Tonight is our night! Don't be afraid of police...
Ironic Speech. It did not quite turn out that way. At week's end the junta was still in power. Police, backed by army troops and tanks, smashed into the Polytechnic University and removed its occupants. Immediately after the rioting, downtown Athens looked like a battlefield. Debris was everywhere. Barricades of wood and garbage burned. Clouds of tear gas hung over the area...
...want to let the people here know what's happening in Greece, and we also want them to know that U.S. tax money is supporting the fascist junta and killing the Greek people," one Harvard Greek student said. He refused to give his name, saying he feared reprisals from the Greek government...
...crowds--the demonstrators have been telephoning Greece and Europe and have been monitoring BBC radio in London and the German Voice radio from Cologne. "We think American news people should be listening to those news sources which are covering the real news and not just the news the junta government wishes to disseminate," another Greek student said: He also refused to be identified...