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...about his only public activity recently was to be guest of honor at an international karate contest in Rome's Olympic Village (he holds a black belt). Other Greeks abroad are not, however, so fatalistic; in city after city this week, they protested the military dictatorship. Actress Melina Mercouri, who has made opposition to the junta a second career, flew into London for a demonstration in Trafalgar Square, and similar rallies were scheduled for, among other places, Chicago, Montreal, Melbourne, Stockholm, West Berlin and Rome...
...THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Melina Mercouri and Peter Ustinov in Topkapi...
...King is dead," actress Melina Mercouri said last night after a concert sponsored by the Greek Students of M.I.T. at Kresge Auditorium. "His countercoup was a farce...
Billed as "An Evening with Melina Mercouri," the concert became a rally for the restoration of Greek democracy. "Freedom or death," she cried to the tightly packed audience of several thousand. "I believe in democracy and the U.S., they will help us. And even if they don't help us, we will be free again, we will...
...regime: right-wing officers bow out to reactionaries; one purge succeeds another until there remains only a core of deeply paranoic rulers with a dramatic flair for secret police and censorship. Combining the absurd and the petty, the Greek colonels prohibit political talk in private homes, and deprive Melina Mercouri of her citizenship. Puritanical instincts have prompted them to ban mini-skirts, long hair, classical Greek plays, and to declare compulsory church attendance...