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Kanellopoulos' testimony undermined the charge of insurrection. But the accusations of high treason-for acting against the national interest-will probably be strengthened next week when Andreas Papandreou, head of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement, will reportedly name CIA officials as the colonels' coconspirators. The maximum penalty for high treason is life imprisonment, but the junta leaders are expected to get off with lighter sentences. Although extremists have called for retributive justice, most Greeks merely wish to see them judged under...
...United Europe--without NATO and the U.S.--as an alternative to the current balance of power. The old framework is too rigid to contain the present multiplicity of societies. There is no longer a Communism to pit the Western system against--perhaps, as the late Greek Prime Minister. George Papandreou has written, even the term democracy is simply a euphemism and a way of confusing the mind...
...justification for their action. During his brief active reign (1964-67) Constantine displayed the royal penchant for political highhandedness that has troubled Greece for much of its modern history. To resolve a dispute over control of the army in 1965, for instance, he simply dismissed liberal Prime Minister George Papandreou from office, even though Papandreou had won a landslide election victory the previous year. None of the five caretaker Cabinets that Constantine then appointed proved capable of resolving the political chaos that followed Papandreou's ouster-a situation that eventually led to the 1967 military coup...
...Andreas Papandreou Athens The writer leads the Panhellenic Socialist Movement, which was defeated in the recent election...
When he appeared in the square, wearing a bright red shirt, the crowd of 150,000 greeted him with a thunderous explosion of cheers and firecrackers. "Our country should be reconstructed so that it may belong to all Greeks," Papandreou began. He went on to promise that if elected, he would rid Greece of all American bases, pull Athens out of NATO's political councils, provide free medical care for all, ensure equal rights for women and bring about a measure of economic socialism. The crowd marched out chanting, "Tonight the right is dying." Watching the huge rally...