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Word: juntas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Andreas Papandreou's Panhellenic Socialist Movement (Pasok) with 14% and twelve seats. Papandreou, son of the late George Papandreou, Greece's last elected premier, organized a "children's crusade" of sorts (see box following page), with young people campaigning around the country against the crown, the junta, the Establishment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: The Voters Choose Caramanlis | 12/2/1974 | See Source »

Several prominent resistance leaders who stayed in Greece to fight the junta won seats in the new Parliament. So did Alexandras Panagoulis, the would-be assassin of ex-Dictator George Papadopoulos. But Actress Melina Mercouri, an outspoken opponent of the old regime, went down to a narrow defeat on the Pasok ticket in her working-class district in Piraeus. Another loser was Composer Mikis Theodorakis, who ran as one of the candidates of the United Left, an umbrella organization of Greece's three Communist parties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: The Voters Choose Caramanlis | 12/2/1974 | See Source »

...given up the murderous bent that helped Cyprus gain independence from the British in the '50s, the world was appalled by the naming of Nikos Sampson, a gunman for the notorious EOKA movement, as Cyprus' President earlier this year. When the now ousted Greek military junta installed Sampson in place of Archbishop Makarios, it took the first step on its path to ruin. Sad though it may seem, the world appears willing to forget-if not forgive-most crimes of terrorism and to eventually honor those it once called criminal. It must first, however, have some assurance that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: When Terrorists Become Respectable | 11/25/1974 | See Source »

...striking phenomenon in Greece these days (or in Athens, at least), is the extreme left's appeal to middle-class youth. And what is almost unbelievable is the older generation's tolerance of the left, in light of its paranoid attitude from after World War II until the junta's imposition. Now elder Greeks feel very hostile (literally paranoid) towards the far right...

Author: By Anemona Hartocollis, | Title: For Stability's Sake | 11/16/1974 | See Source »

This extreme right operates under Petros Garouphalias, and unites dedicated royalists with stragglers from the junta under the name of the National Democratic Union (EDE). As the owner of the nation's largest brewery, Fix, Garouphalias is a classic representative of the economic oligarchy in a small country...

Author: By Anemona Hartocollis, | Title: For Stability's Sake | 11/16/1974 | See Source »

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