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Such talk may be no more than martial posturing. Nonetheless, a serious clash of troops would bring to a halt the current momentum toward peace. At his Washington press conference last Thursday, Kissinger expressed considerable concern that because "both sides are in the rear of each other, there is danger of military encirclement." He concluded that "there is a very great need for separation of forces...
...police forces reinforced with army units. Groups of 50 to 100 people tried to seize telecommunication facilities and attacked ministries and police stations. But the police apparatus, combined with the military strength of marines, paratroopers and 50 tanks coordinated by helicopters, slowly and bloodily imposed the chains of martial law on the population of Greece. The airports were closed, curfews were imposed, 866 Greeks were rounded up in a soccer stadium by the police, almost 2,000 people were arrested and the political leaders of the past, amnestied weeks ago, were once again confined to their homes for "anarchistic" behavior...
loannidis was rescued from obscurity by George Papadopoulos as a reward for having helped him come to power in 1967. Papadopoulos made him chief of the military police, which gradually had been transformed into an internal security army. When Papadopoulos declared martial law after the 1967 coup, he increased ESA'S power even further by making it the junta's chief arm of law and order. Many of the allegations of prisoner torture under the Papadopoulos regime involve...
...Greek students and workers tried to restore freedom in Greece. In response, the junta attacked the protestors with American guns and tanks. Official communiques acknowledged thirteen deaths; rumors suggest that the toll was much higher. There were hundreds of casualties. Thousands were arrested, and the courts martial began to sentence in closed session. The November 25 coup, instantly recognized by the U.S. government, brought to the forefront of the junta the head of the brutal Military Security Police. The situation seems more threatening for the prisoners--and for all Greeks...
...memorial service for former Premier George Papandreou, a leftist, had turned into a clash between police and students, and a week later demonstrations broke out at the Athens Polytechnic University and quickly spread to the streets of the capital; 13 persons were killed and hundreds wounded. Papadopoulos imposed martial law to restore order. The unrest finally gave the military an excuse to overthrow...