Word: papandreou
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stymieing the elections echoed a familiar sort of paranoia--he was simply trying to remove the "communist threat." Oddly enough, contemporary polls predicted that the political Left would control only 10 per cent of the vote; it was the Center Union party, led by liberal former Prime Minister George Papandreou, which seemed on the verge of an easy victory. Three years later, Papadopoulos betrayed his own rationale in an interview with a British journalist, who reported that the premier "made the interesting admission that in the years before his seizure of power, democracy in Greece had not been in danger...
...economy, however, caught in a spiraling 15 per cent inflation--the worst in Europe at the time--was starting to have an effect on the Greek people. A memorial service for George Papandreou, former prime minister, brought on riots which for the first time attacked the police and repulsed the riot units with stones and sheer mass...
Though the military looked on Papadopoulos's maneuver with disfavor, his promises of full democracy had been made before and were not altogether convincing to Greek leftists and moderates. In early November, a memorial service for former Premier George Papandreou, a leftist, had turned into a clash between police and students, and a week later demonstrations broke out at the Athens Polytechnic University and quickly spread to the streets of the capital; 13 persons were killed and hundreds wounded. Papadopoulos imposed martial law to restore order. The unrest finally gave the military an excuse to overthrow...
...troubles began two days earlier, when Athens students demonstrated against the convictions of five per sons who had attended a memorial service for the late Premier George Papandreou, who had headed a center-left government. Following that incident, several thousand students occupied the prestigious Polytechnic University. Barricaded inside, they chanted "Down with the junta," "Americans out," and "Death to Papadopoulos." They set up a radio transmitter. Despite government jamming efforts, they broadcast pleas to Athenians to launch a general strike and oust the government. One neophyte announcer, his voice shaking with emotion, shouted: "Tonight is our night...
Amnesty International contends that some governments not only practice torture but indirectly admit it to intimidate other dissenters. Margaret Papandreou (wife of the former Greek Cabinet minister) charges that Greece's military government "wants people to know that it is torturing prisoners"-although it imprisons those who dare discuss the matter openly...