Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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After the interview, Pattakos treated us to an enormous platter of roast lamb. At dawn the next day he flew off. We were confident that Pattakos' word on our filming would be taken as law, but we were wrong. The local military authorities acted on the orders which they had...
As more and more pressure was mounting against us during the weeks after Pattakos' visit, we decided that we had to finish filming as soon as possible and leave. The villagers were always kind to us and the village council even gave us all the land surrounding our tent to...
THE COLONELS have more support in remote mountain villages such as Samarina than they do in the larger towns and cities. One reason is that conditions in the countryside were largely neglected by the previous governments, which emphasized urban growth and industrial development. Many villagers are now happy that so...
preserve their way of life. Many resent the government's massive purchase of private forests. One old man complained that his son could not find a job in Greece because he had gone to a foreign university.
The prospects for active resistance against the regime involves a Catch 22: opponents of the junta are reluctant to resist because they realize that the Sixth Fleet and the U.S. military mission in Greece is behind the colonels all the way. The U.S. is not considering changing its unqualified support...