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...every weekday at 7 a.m., Captain George Tsantes stepped into the back seat of a black Plymouth sedan outside his home in Kifissia, a northern suburb of Athens, for the 30-minute drive to his office in downtown Athens. This time, however, two men on a Vespa motor scooter were shadowing him. When the car stopped for a red light, the scooter zoomed alongside, and a gunman fired seven shots from a .45-cal. pistol, killing Tsantes instantly and fatally wounding his driver...
...Arabs wearing pants." Even Athens' shops and hotels can compare with Beirut's. Airline, telephone and telex service is excellent, and there is still a sufficient amount of modern office space. True, prices are high; the rent for much desired villas with swimming pools in suburban Kifissia has doubled recently, to about $1,000 a month. Even so, points out one recent corporate settler, Edwin P. Hoffman, senior vice president of Citibank, "Athens has the schools and housing that we require. It's a pleasant city...
...ELAS had their successes too. In the fashionable Kifissia suburb they dynamited their way into R.A.F. headquarters. In central Athens they stormed into forbidding Averoff prison. Scores of political prisoners passed from British to ELAS custody. Averoffs condemned quisling, potbellied, bemonocled Ioannis Rallis, bolted while the prison was changing hands. Two days later, with both British and ELAS hot on his trail, he surrendered to the Greek police. He still wore his eyeglass...
Within a few hours Colonel Zervas and the Republican Guard were advancing upon Athens with two tanks. Ammunition stored in one of the tanks exploded, killing its crew and several bystanders. A pitched battle in which some 50 persons were killed ensued up and down the Kifissia Boulevard. At last Dictator Kondylis announced from the justly suspected telegraph office: "Athens is quiet, and the situation is well in hand." A subsequent despatch told of reports that the Royalist leader Colonel Plastiras was marching upon Athens with intent to coup...
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