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...History. Where Z departs from the facts is in its implication that the present junta led by Colonel George Papadopoulos was involved in the right-wing plot. By a convenient compression of history, Z strongly suggests that the junta engineered the assassination, then used the ensuing disorders as a pretext to seize power. The assassination actually occurred four years before the colonels came to power, and there is no known evidence linking them with it. The episode, in fact, had quite different results. It helped topple the conservative regime of Constantine Karamanlis, which was then replaced by the left-centrist...
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Might such a demonstration have worked? Historians are divided. It is true that the one-two punch on Hiroshima and Nagasaki propelled the Japanese war party into an untenable position, gave the Emperor a convenient pretext for intervening in the crisis, and made it appear that the U.S. had Bombs to spare (in fact, there were no more immediately available). But the Nagasaki attack seems to have been lamentably premature. Hiroshima was 400 miles from Tokyo, far from the eyes of those who made national war policy. On the day Fat Man exploded, the Supreme Council was just getting...
...burned out buildings, Piercinni's Variety Store, became the makeshift Panther headquarters. Police raided the headquarters on a pretext of searching for weapons and for the assailant of Steven Botehlo, a white youth who had been shot in the leg a few hours before...
...first Pattakos refused to negotiate with what he called "air pirates-blackmailers who, under the pretext of patriotism, violate international law." For nearly eight hours Arab ambassadors, Red Cross officials and even Aristotle Onassis, owner of Olympic Airways, argued and pleaded with the adamant hijackers. At one point Onassis offered himself as hostage instead of the 47 terrified passengers, but the air pirates spurned his offer. "They said I was only one while the passengers were many," he said later. "It seems my stock is falling." Arab ambassadors who were summoned to the airport urged the hijackers to release...