Word: leader
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...passive, for the most part. There is no overt action against the regime. Their protest mainly takes the from of making jokes against the colonels, who allegedly lead lurid personal lives. A small number of pamphlets circulate around Athens but there is no real, well-organized opposition. No leader exists who can act as a focal point for resistance...
Georges Papandreou, Greece's former prime minister and leader of the Center Union Party, was jailed at the outbreak of the revolution and has only recently been freed. His son, Andreas, the leader of the left wing of the Center Union, is also free and reportedly in Sweden...
Bushy-bearded Yippie leader Jerry Rubin, a major figure in the demonstrations, was led from the House Office Building by police for the second time in one day. He was evicted earlier when he tried to enter the hearings wearing a bandolier ribbed with live bullets...
...they played a large part in his life. "I used to live Alice (In Wonderland) and Just William. I wrote my own William stories, with me doing all the things... After I'd read a book I'd relive it all again...I wanted to be gang leader at school. I'd want them all to play the games that I wanted them to play...childhood...was all imagining I was Just William really...
Mark Rudd is an example of what future student leaders at other campuses might be like. Power, the role of leader, fell to him arbitrarily. He was the head of SDS at Columbia in the spring of '68 as he was trying to do. what other heads of SDS had always been trying to do. Then the sit-ins worked just right; and the press made him a national figure. Rudd, himself, insists that he is no more the leader of the revolt than half a dozen other people...