Word: papandreou
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Andreas Papandreou, the leading figure of the Greek political left, has posed one question ceaselessly ever since his exile by the military junta which now rules his country: Why is it that the Greek people did not rise in large numbers to crush the dictatorship and restore democratic rule...
Before the 1967 coup, the liberal regime of Pre-mier George Papandreou and the economic ministry of his son, Andreas, had emphasized the development of widespread free education. Nine years of compulsory schooling, free textbooks and free lunches for all schoolchildren were a feature of pre-coup Greece...
...square in Athens. When Helen Vlachos discontinued publication of her newspaper in protest of the coup, American ambassador Phillips Talbot tried to persuade her to resume publication. C. L. Sulzgerger, chief foreign editor of the New York Times , could scarcely conceal his delight at having that rabble-rousing Andreas Papandreou silenced. The so-called embargo on heavy arms turned out to be completely bogus when it was found out that the Pentagon was selling surplus heavy arms to Greece. In any case, the "embargo" was lifted this summer for "strategic" reasons. When the Commission on Human Rights' findings that torture...
...which their representative was told to wait it out: 1) until the abortive counter-coup by Constantine in December 1967, it was thought (and hoped) that the military government would be toppled; and 2) many of the economists with whom the DAS had begun to work under the Papandreou regime felt that the presence of the American team would forestall their own imminent arrest...
...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 regime of George Papandreou, who was an enemy of the hard-line Greek military. As the reviewer for Manhattan's Village Voice put it, Z's plot is "much as if an American film maker had attempted to establish a direct link between the assassination of Bobby Kennedy and the accession...