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...makeup of the junta remained something of a mystery. The new President was a relatively unknown army officer, Lieut. General Phaedon Gizikis (who was promoted to full general three days after the coup). But he did not seem to be a particularly forceful figure; in fact he went out of his way to announce, after taking the oath of office, that "I have no personal ambition." The new Cabinet was composed of civilian rightists who had been rounded up quickly after the takeover; some were unknowns and some were has-beens...
...everybody knows everybody else," almost everybody has heard of Brigadier General Dimitrios loannidis (pronounced Ee-o-ahn-ee-dis). A spectral, Beria-like figure who commands Greece's military police force-the feared ESA-loannidis was not seen by the public even at the swearing-in ceremony of Phaedon Gizikis, the colorless army general who is Greece's new President. He did not really have to, since it is loannidis and not Gizikis who runs the junta...
...under arrest while tanks rolled unopposed into the main squares of Athens. By the time the Greek people learned that their country had undergone its second coup d' état in six and a half years, the army had already sworn in a new president, Lieut. General Phaedon Ghizikis, a rightist and friend of deposed King Constantine...
Until this week, the new president, Phaedon Ghizikis, 57, had been the commander of the First Army based in central Greece. He had never been close to Papadopoulos, remaining instead friendly with King Constantine, who is presently living in exile in Britain. It was not known whether the new coup would have any effect on the status of the Greek monarchy, though observers noted that in an announcement the new government referred to the "Royal" Greek Air Force for the first time since the monarchy was formally abolished six months...