The Athenian

THE summer of 1975 will be a landmark in Greek History. For the first time virtually the entire leadership of a regime found itself in a court of law accused of treason and sedition.

TRAGEDIES by Sophocles and Euripides and comedies by Aristophanes are being reenacted this summer at the giant ancient amphitheatre of Epidaurus.

Early last fall the students and staff of the American Farm School gathered in front of the main gate to greet a bus carrying a group of Cypriot refugees. As the bus approached, the girls and boys talked and joked, delighted to be released from their school routine. Among the staff there was hardly a face that was not taut with emotion: many of them had arrived as refugees from Asia Minor at these very gates in the tumultuous years after 1921.

FOR SOME time now Rhodes has been the Majorca of the Aegean. Practically every cruise ship plying the eastern Mediterranean touches down there. In recent years as many as 150 charter and regularly scheduled flights arrived weekly from northern Europe and elsewhere.

IN ADDITION to the first anniversary marking the Junta-inspired coup in Cyprus (July 15, 1974) and the reestablishment of democracy in Greece, two events monopolized public interest last month: the conviction of Cavalry Captain Kotsaris for the murder of a prisoner at the racetrack during the first days of the April 21, 1967 coup in Greece, and the Supreme Court decision that high treason is an ‘instantaneous’ crime.