Word: junta
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...proceed with a political maneuver that would buy him time. He abolished the monarchy, made himself president of a republic, and installed a civilian premier who promised elections in 1974. It was an attempt to impose a Brazilian or Turkish style solution to the crisis, with the fascist junta actually retaining full power behind a facade of fake democratic procedures. It was, of course, again vocally rejected by democratic public opinion and political leaders. The students were also promised elections for university students councils, but under the control of government-appointed committees. This too was repeatedly rejected by student general...
From the very start and throughout the seven years of dictatorship, the huge majority of the Greek people remained decidedly opposed to the junta's terrorist policies. This was the single most important factor leading to its eventual downfall. All political parties, from the left to the parliamentary right, declared their unwillingness to cooperate, and some more, some less actively, opposed the fascist regime. Only a handful of financial and industrial oligarchs with close ties to international capital (e.g. industrialist Tom Pappas; shipping magnates) collaborated because they sensed their golden opportunity to rob the Greek people and state with impunity...
...resistance became open, massive, active and well-organized. The regime was facing its most severe public challenge to date. The movement was spearheaded by students and their struggle committees, set up to counter an un-precedented wave of repression focused on the universities, which were seething with anti-junta agitation and organization all through...
...elaborate organizational structure in the school to direct the distribution of food provided in great quantity by the people of Athens, who showed up voluntarily for this purpose; to establish a small hospital in the school staffed by volunteer physicians and medical students, in case there was a violent junta attack to dislodge them; and to patrol the campus and prevent infiltration of student ranks by police agents. A homemade radio transmitter, heard throughout Athens, broadcast the following student demands: immediate surrender of power by the junta to a government composed of all anti-junta resistance groups and political parties...
...this point that the junta decided to strike back violently, having so far kept a low profile. The occupation was already assuming the dimensions of a general popular uprising, which it could not tolerate. From midnight of the 16th to the night of the 17th, the rumble of tanks was heard as they descended on the Polytechnic from their camps in the north of Athens. At three o'clock in the morning of the 17th, a tank smashed the main gate of the school and special mountain warfare units of the army stormed the building. The students, their hands...