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Last week the poly-Papadopoulos added another title. He brusquely de posed General George Zoitakis, who had been Regent and acting head of state since King Constantine fled the country following an unsuccessful countercoup. The ouster of Zoitakis was voted unanimously by Greece's 17-member rubber-stamp Cabinet last week, ostensibly because the Regent had refused to approve a new law increasing personnel in the security forces and national fire department. Within half an hour Papadopoulos had been "requested" to succeed the general as Regent. Under pictures of Constantine and his Danish-born Queen Anne-Marie, Greece...
...course, would ponder the question openly. Lecturing in Athens last week, West German Novelist Gunter Grass was willing to do so. "I went to Delphi today," Grass observed. "The oracle suggested that only when Prime Minister Papadopoulos, in his role of Minister of Defense, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regent, also becomes the Archbishop of Athens will he resemble God and take joy in himself...
...alcoholic and a ladies' man, the Soviets hoped to cast doubt on his importance and his character; in the process, they also betrayed the fact that, even in this drab age, the life of a spy can have its high points. A natty dresser who bought his clothes in Regent Street, Oleg was known as a big spender who, according to one restaurateur, "thought nothing of picking up an £80 [$192] tab." He had a wife and seven-year-old son in Moscow, but British newspapers linked him with at least five women in London?an Israeli student...
...warships steamed into Tokyo Bay to "open" Japan to American commerce, Emperor Komei passionately resisted the invasion, but in vain. So it was that Hirohito eventually "inherited from his great-grandfather a mission, which was to rid Asia of white men." As early as 1921, when Hirohito became regent for his ailing father, he organized a cabal of young officers notably including Major Hideki Tojo, to undertake any mission the throne desired. Bergamini insists that two years before the fighting broke out, Hirohito personally "directed his General Staff to plan...
Boun Oum is indebted to both France and the U.S. for support in s past bids for national power in the foreign-manipulated politics of Laos. The French named him Vice-Regent of the kingdom in 1947, making him the second-ranking figure behind the king. In 1948, he formed a government with French support and went on to sign an agreement with France in 1949 preserving a predominant French role in Laos...