A Bright Exception
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.
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.
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.
CONSTANTINE Karamanlis had two goals when he again laid eyes on Greece from the ramp of the French Presidential plane which brought him back to Athens on July 23, 1974. The first was to revise the Constitution of 1952. The second was to disengage the country from what many considered to be the suffocating embrace of the U.S.A.