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...troubles began two days earlier, when Athens students demonstrated against the convictions of five per sons who had attended a memorial service for the late Premier George Papandreou, who had headed a center-left government. Following that incident, several thousand students occupied the prestigious Polytechnic University. Barricaded inside, they chanted "Down with the junta," "Americans out," and "Death to Papadopoulos." They set up a radio transmitter. Despite government jamming efforts, they broadcast pleas to Athenians to launch a general strike and oust the government. One neophyte announcer, his voice shaking with emotion, shouted: "Tonight is our night...
Amnesty International contends that some governments not only practice torture but indirectly admit it to intimidate other dissenters. Margaret Papandreou (wife of the former Greek Cabinet minister) charges that Greece's military government "wants people to know that it is torturing prisoners"-although it imprisons those who dare discuss the matter openly...
...picked him as Premier after the death of Field Marshal Alexander Papagos in 1955, Caramanlis was primarily responsible for Greece's recovery from the aftereffects of the Nazi occupation and the 1946-49 civil war and for her rapid economic development. After his defeat by the late George Papandreou in 1963, he went into exile amid allegations of rigged elections and secret funds...
...departure broke, it was assumed that the regime had secretly negotiated with Bonn to let the famous prisoner go (Mangakis is a close friend of West German Federal Cabinet Minister Horst Ehmke). Such arrangements, at U.S., French or British instigation, had previously resulted in the release of Professor Andreas Papandreou, Composer Mikis Theodorakis and Lady Amalia Fleming...
Leftists in other countries have learned from the Papandreou government's mistakes, and are heeding his cautionary remarks. When I was in Chile (a few weeks back) leaders of the MIR (the Leftist Revolutionary Movement) alluded more than once to Mr. Papandreou's experience and understanding.News Editor, Boston After Dark