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After the failure of this summer's coup in Cyprus, the junta's last president, General Gizikis, invited Caramanlis to take over the collapsing government. Caramanlis retained Gizikis as a figurehead president and, in deference to public sentiment, finally exiled five other members of the junta--strong-man George Papadopoulos included--to the Aegean island of Kea. But his skittish attitude towards punishment of the leaders and instruments of dictatorship, including known torturers, has drawn sharp criticism from the opposition. He did gain credit as being independent of American influence--and soothed people's self-esteem--by taking Greece...
George Mavros, a conservative former associate of the late prime minister George Papandreou--whose re-election the '67 coup aimed to avert--heads the party of the Center Union-New Political Forces. The junta exiled him repeatedly on account of his antagonistic public statements, and he joined Caramanlis as vice-premier and minister of external affairs when the regime fell. He counts a youngish (late forties to early fifties) group of progressive middle-class Greeks among his followers--most of whom actively resisted the dictatorship and suffered persecution, exile, jail, and torture. These people comprise, specifically, the NPF sector...
...forced to be individualistic, to study very much and live less. But I feel an obligation to help in a political act. I know what it is to struggle against the junta, I know what low education means; I have seen people with the opportunity to be correct persons being spoiled," Savakis says...
Kitromilides is a Greek-Cypriote, and this summer he was in uniform in his native land. Since the fall of the junta in July, he says, he feels relieved...
...agonizing extent, their fortunes are tied to the fate of the junta which they are convinced has not yet fully been "dismantled" in the homeland. The CIA-junta nexus still exists, they say, and the consulate, with its paternalist attention to their activities in Cambridge, is still linked with the secret police network in Greece. And so some members of the association receive mail from abroad at American friends' names and addresses, in the fear that correspondence is examined...