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...struggle that wracks Greece, although it might seem remote and local to Americans. The conflict is actually of a very general nature: It is an instance of opposition between a will for freedom and a force of mindless suppression. On April 21, 1967, Greece was seized by a military junta. In the first hours of the morning, Brigadier General Stylianos Pattakos maneuvered tanks--Sherman and Patton M-47's, supplied to NATO countries by the United States--into the streets of Athens. The same night, Colonel John Ladas was commanding an operation called "Arrests of Dangerous Elements;" over...
...drive me crazy. What happened here in Greece last November really shocked me. All those years I participated to all the manifestations down town. I saw policemen running after us and hitting us violently. But that was not so tragic. After all I knew that we lived under a junta and that does not mean peace and easy life. I knew we were not free. But I didn't really feel...
...courage, not for a second. I did not lose courage because I had forbidden myself to think. I only asked him to fight. But when all that was over, when I had time to think, then that shock I told you about came. I could not stand what the Junta said (the army took out the few Communists without a single drop of blood.--The Communists are guilty of $30,000,000 damage in the Polytechnic!). It was the first time in my life I witnessed such a raw violence between people. Since I was born I'm hearing...
...ambassador, Harald Edelstam, said in a press conference at the Boston State House, that the junta showed "absolutely no justice" by holding political prisoners without charges, and by executing and arresting people daily...
Because of this request from the Swedish government, Edelstam declined to comment on the alleged involvement of the U.S. government either in the coup which brought the junta to power, or in the present situation of Chilean government...