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...danger springs from the deep and bitter division between the overwhelming majority of Greek Cypriots who are loyal to Makarios and the small (2,000 members) but powerful EOKA-B organization. During last summer's coup, the EOKA-B sided with the then ruling Greek military junta to overthrow the archbishop. Unlike the leaders of the Athens junta, most of whom are now under arrest and awaiting trial on a Greek isle, the EOKA-B gunmen remain at large, mainly because Greek Cypriot authorities are eager to avoid another violent showdown after the debacle of the Turkish invasion...
...Everywhere I go they make the same demonstration," Heitmann said of those who were gathering to protest the overthrow of the Allende government and the junta's present repressive policies. "I bet the slogans they have here are the same they have all over the world. We have proof--it's only a matter of listening to Radio Moscow. These demonstrators here obey a central agency in New York." He touched on the same theme an hour later when, during his speech in a room of the Harvard Club, chants of "Viva Allende" were clearly audible from the 200 protesters...
Earlier this year Moynihan sent a controversial cable to Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger '50 expressing concern that the Ford administration's admission that the CIA was involved in the 1973 overthrow of President Salvador Gossens Allende in Chile might adversely affect U.S. relations with India...
...upheld. To date, eight Chileans have been convicted or have pleaded guilty, and two were acquitted or cleared of the original charges. The other six wait in the federal jail, convinced that whether or not they were drug smugglers, they have been railroaded by Uncle Sam, who first helped overthrow the regime that tolerated them and then hijacked them out of their homeland. One federal agent concedes the difficulties involved. "There's so much money in narcotics that local law-enforcement people are corrupted very easily," he says. "People get away. Agents have to take care of things...
Like other radical Greeks, Hadzilacos says he is committed to the "progressive movement" world-wide. He notes specifically his protest both of the overthrow of President Salvador Allende in Chile one year ago and of racism in the United States, and his support for Puerto Rican independence...