Word: papandreou
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...early 1967, Andreas had emerged as the most forceful, dynamic figure in a political party which seemed destined to sweep the upcoming national elections-the Center Union Party headed by his father, George Papandreou. The elder Papandreou had been removed as Prime Minister in July 1965 by King Constantine-who fabricated a "constitutional crisis" especially for the occasion-and the country had since been ruled by a series of puppet "caretaker" governments. But when constitutional law impelled Constantine to grant an election for May 1967, the showdown between left and right became only a matter of time...
Today, of course, the country remains in the grip of the regime. But, as Andreas Papandreou suggested in a recent interview, the survival of the dictatorship cannot be laid to the apathy or disinterestedness of the people whom it rules. The junta persists because the traditional strength of the right in Greece had been buttressed by American support...
...baby coup, of course, was largely an American design. As Papandreou points out, the U.S. mission achieved its goals not by subverting the Palace but infiltrating the military through the intelligence services. The Greek secret police was created and directly funded by the CIA. During the eleven years of conservative rule from 1952 to 1963, the U.S. had vast opportunities to build up its contacts in the army's control structure...
When the Center Union under George Papandreou was elected to power in 1963, it undertook an ambitious program of reform. In particular, it democratized the trade union structure and moved against the electoral corruption and police terror which had characterized the conservative regimes. That in itself would have been enough to antagonize the Palace and the American embassy, committed as they were to their own political and economic constituencies. But when the elder Papandreou began to clean up the army, the Palace decided that he had gone a step...
...months before the May 1967 election, Andreas Papandreou stumped the country and was heralded as his father's successor. He had been a minister and then a Parliamentary deputy in the Center Union government, but Greek politics was almost new to him-having been exiled as a student for activity against a pre-war government, he had been a professor of Economics in the United States for 15 years before his return to Greece in 1960. Yet his increasingly independent stand on the NATO alliance and the U.S. infiltration of the Greek secret police-combined with his immense popularity-made...