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...very important step towards building greater devices," says Phaedon Avouris, the manager of Nanometer Scale Science and Technology at IBM's Watson Research Center...
...also on trial -had approved and even joined the coup. Moreover, Premier Caramanlis himself had tacitly accepted the junta's legitimacy. It was the junta that summoned Caramanlis back to Greece to form a new government last year, and it was a President appointed by the colonels, Phaedon Gizikis, who swore in Caramanlis as Premier. Evidence that the colonels had set up a legal government was unexpectedly reinforced by testimony of a prosecution witness. Panayotis Kanellopoulos, the Premier from whom the colonels took power, stated at the trial that no less a figure than former King Constantine had legitimatized...
...telephone call last Tuesday to the Paris apartment of former Greek Premier Constantino Caramanlis signaled a historic turning point for Greece. It was from Greek President Phaedon Gizikis in Athens, begging Caramanlis, 67, to end eleven years of exile and "return home as soon as possible." A second call came from French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, placing a French Mystere 20 jet at his disposal, since commercial service to the troubled country had been halted. Within hours the Greek elder statesman was airborne, on his way to Athens. By the time he landed, to a tumultuous welcome from...
Makarios grew uneasy under Athens' mounting campaign, sensing a coup in the wind. He realized that his greatest danger was the presence of the 650 Greek officers on the island, and three weeks ago he wrote a letter to Greek President Phaedon Gizikis demanding their removal. Their continued presence, he said, was "harmful to relations between Athens and Nicosia." In a sermon two weeks ago, he spoke of feeling "the invisible hand that is threatening the liberty of Cyprus and menacing my life." Just three days before the coup he asserted that he had proof that Athens was plotting...
...Greeks outside the army, there was not much to celebrate, and few civilians would want to admit any responsibility for the creations of the past seven years. General Phaedon Gizikis, 56, is the current President, but the real power is Brigadier Dimitrios loannidis, 52, an austere bachelor who heads the military police. loannidis is widely suspected of plotting the coup against Papadopoulos, mainly because the general believed that the country was drifting away from tight central control...