Word: populars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vesque is still committed to separatism for Quebec, but his masterly campaign strategy was built around barely mentioning the Independence issue. After the 1973 election debacle, the Péquistes had soft-pedaled their platform calling for immediate separation, promising instead to honor the results of a popular referendum to be held within two years of taking office. In the campaign, Lévesque concentrated on attacking Bourassa's Liberals for economic mismanagement, ineptitude and untrustworthiness. Said Lévesque repeatedly through the campaign: "Our first aim will be to create the best provincial government possible...
...elections of 1961 were rigged and in 1965 the king arbitrarily fired Prime Minister George Papandreou, who had just received 53 per cent of the popular vote in the election...
Before 1967 a widespread popular movement had been taking shape in Greece, demanding basically the genuine implementation of the democratic principles that were embodied in a conservative constitution but blatantly frustrated by a set of unconstitutional laws which severely curtailed freedoms of organization, speech and political expression. A variety of extreme right-wing groups were allowed to conduct a systematic terror campaign against the Left and Center, which were opposing the emasculation of democratic institutions...
...deep qualitative change--the end of U.S. control in Greek politics and the smashing of the right-wing terrorist groups and their protectors within the armed forces and state bureaucracy. The elections scheduled for May 28, 1967, were certain to produce a left of center government, which under intense popular pressure would have to pursue that orientation. In these circumstances, the U.S. government gladly acquiesced in the colonels' coup, in the occupation of Athens by elite units incorporated under the NATO military command. And wholehearted U.S. support continued throughout the seven-year period of the fascist dictatorship, in a manner...
...this point that the junta decided to strike back violently, having so far kept a low profile. The occupation was already assuming the dimensions of a general popular uprising, which it could not tolerate. From midnight of the 16th to the night of the 17th, the rumble of tanks was heard as they descended on the Polytechnic from their camps in the north of Athens. At three o'clock in the morning of the 17th, a tank smashed the main gate of the school and special mountain warfare units of the army stormed the building. The students, their hands...