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...Former Premier George Papandreou...
...announcements, perhaps including an amnesty for many of its 2,500 political prisoners, 100 of whom were released just before Easter. And, in an effort to ensure that the celebra tions would not be marred by dissident voice, it placed under house arrest two of its bitterest critics, George Papandreou, 80, the leader of the big and now banned Center Union Party, and Panayotis Kanellopoulos, 66, the last constitutionally appointed Premier...
...Papandreou's case, the precaution did no good. Anticipating a crackdown, "the Old Fox"-as he is widely known in Greece-slipped out before his arrest a recording of a ringing anti-junta speech to Britain, where the BBC's Greek-language broadcast beamed his defiant words into sets all over Greece...
...eight-minute speech, Papandreou, who was Premier in 1963-65, called on the free world to boycott the junta so that "it will be worthy of the name." At home, he called on the Greek army to reassess its own support of the junta in light of the fact that the ruling colonels had produced no proof of a planned Communist takeover, their rationalization for seizing power. Under Greece's stern martial law, Papandreou's blast was tantamount to treason, but the junta took no further action against him for the time being, ridiculing his statement...
...target of the Greek resistance movement, according to Mr. Papandreou is "the establishment of democratic processes in Greece through a Bill of Rights that really exists...