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...country was already under martial law, so the army was able to move quietly and efficiently. Police and troops quickly surrounded the suburban home of President George Papadopoulos and placed him under arrest while tanks rolled unopposed into the main squares of Athens. By the time the Greek people learned that their country had undergone its second coup d' état in six and a half years, the army had already sworn in a new president, Lieut. General Phaedon Ghizikis, a rightist and friend of deposed King Constantine...
...revolt left hundreds of students injured and at least five dead. Underscoring the seriousness of Greece's violent weekend, the government imposed martial law across the entire country. Papadopoulos, in an unintentionally ironic speech, called the revolt "a conspiracy against democracy," even as troops and tanks patrolled the capital's streets and airplane traffic was banned from Athens airport...
Troops and tanks patrolled Greece's three largest cities--Athens, Salonica, and Patras--enforcing the martial law declared Saturday after two days of bloody clashes between police, troops and dissidents...
...take similar pride in the role their own government plays in Greece or Korea. In both countries, the United States is the principal supporter of the dictators. It sends them money and assistance which they use to make their control crueler and more complete. When the Greek government declared martial law on Sunday, the tanks it deployed against student demonstrators were American tanks, and the blood of those demonstrators killed fighting for democratic ideals reddens President Nixon's hands almost as deeply as the blood of Cambodian farmers killed by his bombers...
...seven seats in the assembly. In 1970 a separatist terror organization called the Front de Libération du Québec (F.L.Q.) kidnaped the British trade commissioner and murdered Pierre Laporte, the Liberal Party's Labor Minister. Ottawa's response was blunt: it imposed near martial law under the War Measures Act, and the Montreal streets were patrolled by helmeted troops...