Word: juntas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Growing Anarchy. The break in M.F.A. ranks was brought about by moderates determined to halt the gathering momentum toward Communist dictatorship. Led by former Foreign Minister Ernesto Melo Antunes, the moderates issued a petition of protest blaming the radicals-and indirectly the ruling junta-for growing anarchy, political drift and loss in confidence by the majority of the people...
...criminal offense. Lawyers for 16 of the defendants then walked out of the courtroom, arguing that they could not conduct a defense "in this climate of terror and violence." Exasperated, the president of the court, Yiannis Deyannis, who was appointed a high court judge under the junta, yelled, "Let all those who wish to leave-leave...
...issue was whether or not the colonels had in fact seized power illegally in 1967. But their superior officer, Lieut. General Gregorios Spandidakis, the army chief of staff-now also on trial -had approved and even joined the coup. Moreover, Premier Caramanlis himself had tacitly accepted the junta's legitimacy. It was the junta that summoned Caramanlis back to Greece to form a new government last year, and it was a President appointed by the colonels, Phaedon Gizikis, who swore in Caramanlis as Premier. Evidence that the colonels had set up a legal government was unexpectedly reinforced by testimony...
Loyal Officials. Kanellopoulos, a highly respected leader of the National Radical Union, told how he had been arrested at machine-gun point by junta soldiers and taken to the monarch in 1967. He urged the King, who was also commander in chief of the armed forces, to order loyal officers to crush the colonels' rebellion. The weak and inexperienced Constantine, then 27, refused, fearing bloodshed. Instead, he swore the colonels into office...
...insurrection. But the accusations of high treason-for acting against the national interest-will probably be strengthened next week when Andreas Papandreou, head of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement, will reportedly name CIA officials as the colonels' coconspirators. The maximum penalty for high treason is life imprisonment, but the junta leaders are expected to get off with lighter sentences. Although extremists have called for retributive justice, most Greeks merely wish to see them judged under...