Word: packs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Instead, Papadopoulos found himself under arrest, with orders to pack a small bag-fast. At a police station, the charges were spelled out: "plotting to undermine the peaceful progress" of the elections and "developing subversive activities." Papadopoulos also faces charges that he was "morally responsible for the premeditated murder" of 34 Greeks by soldiers during demonstrations last November, a crime that carries the death penalty. Meanwhile, Papadopoulos' financial dealings during his years in power are being probed. His wife Despina is under investigation for receiving money from KYP, the Greek intelligence agency, without performing any known service...
...boat got under way, Papadopoulos looked shaken. In fact, he was being exiled under the same law that he had used to round up more than 10,000 political opponents, who had been given even less time to pack their bags before being sent to much bleaker island prisons. Indeed, most were dispatched without notification of their families or a formal reading of charges...
...movement trying to revive the idea of workers' control over their labor--an idea most American unions long ago abandoned in a single-minded pursuit of higher wages. This movement represents a clear and present danger to corporate growers, reactionary labor groups, conservative California legislators, and their entire pack of sympathizers and apologists who have this country in a stranglehold...
...Pack of Contenders. The Conservatives used to replace an unpopular leader behind the privacy of mahogany doors with a gentlemanly turn of the knife and a three-star brandy to stanch the wound. But Heath was the first leader chosen by a vote under the 1965 reform rules, and no one at the time bothered to determine how he could be ousted. "I'm afraid my system wasn't all that well thought out," said Humphrey Berkeley, who drew up the rules. "It allows someone like Ted Heath, if he's stubborn enough, to be a life...
...actually ready to step down in favor of his friend, Party Chairman William Whitelaw, 56, who won a measure of fame as a skillful negotiator between Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland. Heath's delay in announcing his intention, however, allowed opposition to build and a whole pack of new contenders to emerge, including Sir Keith Joseph, shadow Home Secretary; Mrs. Margaret Thatcher, the shadow cabinet's spokeswoman on housing and environment; and Edward du Cann, a former party chairman. With the prospect of an internal power struggle erupting, Heath changed his mind and decided to remain...