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...Andreas Papandreou, the leading figure of the Greek political left, has posed one question ceaselessly ever since his exile by the military junta which now rules his country: Why is it that the Greek people did not rise in large numbers to crush the dictatorship and restore democratic rule...
...early 1967, Andreas had emerged as the most forceful, dynamic figure in a political party which seemed destined to sweep the upcoming national elections-the Center Union Party headed by his father, George Papandreou. The elder Papandreou had been removed as Prime Minister in July 1965 by King Constantine-who fabricated a "constitutional crisis" especially for the occasion-and the country had since been ruled by a series of puppet "caretaker" governments. But when constitutional law impelled Constantine to grant an election for May 1967, the showdown between left and right became only a matter of time...
Today, of course, the country remains in the grip of the regime. But, as Andreas Papandreou suggested in a recent interview, the survival of the dictatorship cannot be laid to the apathy or disinterestedness of the people whom it rules. The junta persists because the traditional strength of the right in Greece had been buttressed by American support...
Before the 1967 coup, the liberal regime of Pre-mier George Papandreou and the economic ministry of his son, Andreas, had emphasized the development of widespread free education. Nine years of compulsory schooling, free textbooks and free lunches for all schoolchildren were a feature of pre-coup Greece...
...square in Athens. When Helen Vlachos discontinued publication of her newspaper in protest of the coup, American ambassador Phillips Talbot tried to persuade her to resume publication. C. L. Sulzgerger, chief foreign editor of the New York Times , could scarcely conceal his delight at having that rabble-rousing Andreas Papandreou silenced. The so-called embargo on heavy arms turned out to be completely bogus when it was found out that the Pentagon was selling surplus heavy arms to Greece. In any case, the "embargo" was lifted this summer for "strategic" reasons. When the Commission on Human Rights' findings that torture...