Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...month stay on the small Aegean island of Kea, George Papadopoulos, former head of the Greek military dictatorship that was toppled last July, became obsessed with a fanciful scenario. "We will be granted amnesty," Papadopoulos would tell the four junta leaders who shared his exile. "We will stand for Parliament. We will be elected. And finally we shall rule again...
...French-Algerian film Z-based on the 1963 assassination of a popular left-wing member of the Greek Parliament and banned by the junta when it was released in 1969-is now being shown in Athens for the first time. In the past five weeks a record 500,000 have seen it. When the film's hero, a young, tenacious prosecutor, penetrates an official cover-up and indicts six police officials for complicity in the murder, the audience almost invariably responds with a frenzy that verges on blood lust...
...Caramanlis government, former BBC Director-General Sir Hugh Greene is doing a survey of Greek television and recommending ways to move the medium away from the staple fare of junta days: reruns of U.S. situation comedies. The army still controls one of Greece's two channels, but Parliament is now debating legislation to release it from the military's grip...
...Belgium, which has a Dassault plant that would close down if an American plane is chosen. But French influence is less powerful elsewhere; Amsterdam's public prosecutor, for example, is unhappily investigating charges that Dassault has offered cash bribes of up to $600,000 to Dutch members of Parliament to favor the Dassault plane. Lately some top French aviation officials have begun to admit privately that their once high hopes of staving off a big success by American plane salesmen in Europe this year may be-well-a mirage...
...Western support, seeking in particular, a sympathetic lawyer. The Christians' response has been quiet and ineffectual. The World Council of Churches requested information and permission to send an observer, but got no reply. The Vins family approved a Norwegian judge as counsel, but he and three members of Parliament who wanted to attend the trial were refused visas. Last month Baptist World Alliance leaders-in Moscow for the All-Union...