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Although the Cyprus debacle has clearly shaken the confidence of the officer corps, the military remains the most powerful force in Greece. At week's end no officers had been dismissed, not even Ioannides. The onetime strongman merely dropped out of sight, and may, with other hard-lining military men, be regrouping his forces, waiting for their next chance. Unless Caramanlis moves carefully and adroitly in the weeks ahead, they may just...
...reports of how they were doing. But strangest and saddest of all was that the first battle between Greeks and Turks in seven years had been touched off by bitter animosity between Greek and Greek. The root of the war was enmity between the tall bearded Makarios and Greek Strongman Brigadier General Dimitrios Ioannides. Makarios felt that Ioannides, working through Greek officers who have long commanded the Cypriot militia, was trying to turn his people against...
Though Athens denied that it contemplated any action against Makarios, there was little doubt on or off the island that a plot to depose the archbishop was planned by the secretive Ioannides, 52, chief of the Greek military police and strongman behind President Gizikis. Under the mounting demands from Makarios, Ioannides finally ordered the coup to take place Monday morning and, as the archbishop had feared, the Greek officers led the national guard against troops loyal to him. Using Soviet T-34 tanks that the archbishop had received from a 1964 aid pact with Russia, the guard attacked strategic locations...
...strongman has yet emerged. Negotiations with the government are handled by a ten-man committee that includes a sergeant and a private, as well as young majors and captains. The principal activists are apparently army officers assisted by the police, the navy and the imperial guard. The air force is being kept out of the action only because airmen are so dissatisfied that they want to overthrow the Emperor...
Died. Eurico Caspar Dutra, 89, conservative, taciturn President of Brazil from 1946 to 1951; of a heart attack; in Rio de Janeiro. Pre-eminently a soldier, Dutra rose through military ranks to become war minister to Strongman Getulio Vargas in 1936, belatedly latched onto the Allied wartime cause after years of vocal admiration for the Nazi forces, and was swept into the presidency following Vargas' ouster in 1945. Among the highlights of his honest, non-dictatorial but uninspired administration were the outlawing of the Communist Party and of casino gambling, at the time Brazil's most lucrative industry...