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...just say, 'Heel, cheetahs,' and they go back to normal." Swedish-born Britt is equally sanguine about the political troubles of racially torn Rhodesia. "It's one of the happiest countries in Africa," she coos. "We haven't heard a single shot or seen one terrorist." O.K., Britt. But don't forget to feed the cats...
Thus it became evident that the demand for a genuine democracy involved not merely a cosmetic reform of the system, but a deep qualitative change--the end of U.S. control in Greek politics and the smashing of the right-wing terrorist groups and their protectors within the armed forces and state bureaucracy. The elections scheduled for May 28, 1967, were certain to produce a left of center government, which under intense popular pressure would have to pursue that orientation. In these circumstances, the U.S. government gladly acquiesced in the colonels' coup, in the occupation of Athens by elite units incorporated...
From the very start and throughout the seven years of dictatorship, the huge majority of the Greek people remained decidedly opposed to the junta's terrorist policies. This was the single most important factor leading to its eventual downfall. All political parties, from the left to the parliamentary right, declared their unwillingness to cooperate, and some more, some less actively, opposed the fascist regime. Only a handful of financial and industrial oligarchs with close ties to international capital (e.g. industrialist Tom Pappas; shipping magnates) collaborated because they sensed their golden opportunity to rob the Greek people and state with impunity...
...made in the political life of the country. Its foundation would have to be the overthrow of the junta and the eradication of all those political structures, inherited from the U.S.-dominated post-Civil War period in Greece, that made a mockery of democracy and that culminated in this terrorist regime. Above all it expressed the demand for an end to foreign tutelage in general and the establishment of effective Greek independence in foreign policy...
...Royal "We" called on The Clock Maker (an unbelievably pretentious bore) to get out of town before sundown a month ago. Yet the sun keeps setting on this tale of a clock tinkerer whose son turns terrorist. Phillipe Noiret is still quivering with emotion for two hours, and anything more has failed to materialize. Director Taverneir is content to focus on Noiret's face forever--who need dialogue, plot, or motivations? Apparently not Taverneir. Noiret has an occasional temper tantrum, which might in some circles pass for character development. We, however, are still not buying...