Word: kolonaki
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Dates: during 1967-1967
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...blazing Athens morning, but the shades were tightly drawn in the modest second-story apartment in the residential section of Kolonaki. With urgent, hurried gestures, Panayotis Kanellopoulos, 64, ushered 15 visitors into his darkened living room. "We have only five minutes," he said. "Let us not stay here too long." Then the last constitutionally appointed Premier of Greece, who was overthrown, imprisoned and later released after the April 21 army coup, broke his long silence with a direct, head-on attack on Greece's military rulers...
Barricade. In Athens' Kolonaki district, three soldiers and a captain called at 2 a.m. upon Premier Panayotis Kanellopoulos, who had heard of trouble and barricaded his door. The officer explained that they had come to protect him. "I need no protection," cried Kanellopoulos. "I am the Premier of Greece." The soldiers broke down the door. "Why don't you kill me here?" the Premier asked. The soldiers hustled him swiftly into an army truck and drove him off to a detention center...