Word: papandreou
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ever since the Greek Army overthrew the government last Friday, it has been issuing contradictory reports and confusing labels. The military leaders claim that they acted to prevent a revolution planned by former premier George Papandreou, that King Constantine supported the coup and that the new government would somehow bring stability and remove the threat of "dangerous leftists...
...dictatorship cannot possibly lead to a lasting solution of the tensions which have built up in Greece since Papandreou's dismissal as prime minister in 1965. The Army is not sufficiently strong, united, or popular to contain dissent for long especially in the face of opposition from the moderate right, symbolized by the king. There will probably be bloodshed and the regime, if insecure, may resort to political executions...
...Army reportedly arrested a number of the King's political foes, including former Premier George Papandreou and his son Andreas, who would have led forces opposed to the king in parliamentary elections next month...
After 20 years in the U.S., Andreas Papandreou returned to Greece in 1961 to enter politics, soon earned a reputation for irreverence that gave him a sizable following among students and intellectuals. Kanellopoulos says of him: "We have never had such a phenomenon in Greece." Andreas' own father calls him "an arithmetical problem: he adds little, subtracts votes, multiplies problems and divides the party." The two often clash on issues, but blood keeps them in the same camp...
.../op-o-luss), 65, is also a former professor. A onetime teacher of sociology at Athens University, he has been in and out of Greek politics for more than 40 years. He is the heir to ex-Premier Constantine Karamanlis, who was also deplored by the left. The elder Papandreou charged that in choosing Kanellopoulos the King had chosen "the path of wickedness." His party's newspaper warned of the possibility of a dictatorship, and promised that in such a case "the people will mobilize massively to overthrow the regime." At week's end crowds of pro-Papandreou students chanting...