Word: premiered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Panaghoulis himself was of little help to the defense. He boasted of his plan to destroy Premier George Papadopoulos' car, and he proudly pleaded guilty to the charges of desertion and sedition -the two counts bearing a possible death sentence. "Condemn me to death," he challenged the court. "For me, the best swan song is the death rattle before the firing squad of a tyranny...
Desertion is not an act calculated to win sympathy from senior officers. Neither, for that matter, is an attempt to blow up the nation's Premier and overthrow the government by armed rebellion. Thus when Alexandros Panaghoulis stood before Judge Panayotis Voughas in Athens Special Military Court, it seemed hardly surprising that the death sentence was pronounced. Greece's ruling colonels were proud of the fact that there had been no executions under the 19-month-old regime, but in this case there seemed ample reason for breaking precedent...
...original junta officers. Hard-lining former Colonel Ioannis Ladas was switched from the Public Order Ministry to the Interior Ministry, in the process losing direct control of the nation's police. He refused his new post. Ladas, and two other junta members, were balking at their reassignments. Premier Papadopoulos, intent on avoiding further damage to his government's reputation abroad, seemed to have sided with the doves, who wanted to spare the condemned man. The decision to do just that suggested that he had in fact tightened his hold on the government by one more notch...
...culture rather than religion is at the core of Israel's Jewishness. While many Israelis accept Shalit's arguments, a formal cleavage between religion and state would doubtless destroy the coalition of secular and Orthodox Jews that has governed Israel since 1948. When the Cabinet of former Premier David Ben-Gurion attempted to accept Jews simply by their own affirmation in 1958, the resulting controversy nearly destroyed his government. Already one of the leaders of Israel's National Religious Party has warned that any decision in the case that violates Halakha will bring about the party...
Where Morris L. West's bestseller merely strained credulity, the movie shatters it beyond repair. In Siberia, a political prisoner has been pardoned by Russia's Premier (Laurence Olivier) after 20 years in a slave-labor camp. The freed man is no ordinary convict: he is Kiril Lakota, a tough, Mindszenty-like Slavic archbishop. Lakota has been sprung because Russia and China stand ready to trigger an atomic holocaust. The premier, who just happens to be La-kota's former inquisitor, is desperately gambling that the prelate can somehow persuade the world that the Soviet Union wants...