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The Political Machinations Underlying Greece's Debt Crisis
Joanna Kakissis examines for TIME the anti-austerity protests in Greece this week. After a year of austerity economics, even some formerly complacent Greeks have...
Sea Green in Greece
Who says holidays are about getting brown? For kids, getting greener can be far more fun. After a day of snorkeling, kayaking and exploring tide pools, six young...
Track And Field: Greece: Konstantinos Kenteris
Will the Athens games be marked by a sudden ascendancy in Greek athletics? Olympic officials were so unprepared for Konstantinos Kenteris' victory in the 200-m...
Greece: Goodbye, Zeus
No one in Athens or in Washington wanted to make too much of the issue, but Greece's sudden cancellation of Zeus, a small joint maneuver with American forces in...
Greece: Having It Both Ways
Greece these days seems to be of two minds about the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Though Socialist Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou has questioned...
Greece: A Scion from the Kremlin
The tall, bespectacled young Soviet diplomat drew world attention last February as a grieving figure alongside his father's flower-decked bier. Last week Greek...
GREECE: And Then There Was One
"The days of the revolution are over for good," sighed one of the ex-colonels in the original military junta that took over the Greek government in a 1967...
FOREIGN RELATIONS: Beyond Protocol in Greece
The U.S. State Department has been moderately frigid in its dealings with the militarist dictatorship of Premier George Papadopoulos in Greece. Only last week...
Greece: Furor over Prisoners
On the night of April 21, 1967, battle-clad Greek soldiers arrested nearly 7,000 politicians and Communist suspects as part of the successful coup that...
Greece: Safe & Censored
In the ten weeks since it seized power, the new military government of Greece has, at one time or another, turned thumbs down on miniskirts, radio...
Greece: The Continuing Crisis
Greece tried out still another Prime Minister last week. It was far from clear whether the new man could solve the country's six-week-old political deadlock...
Greece: All the King's Men
George Papandreou had outfoxed young King Constantine again. For five days the confidence vote raged over the King's third and latest choice as Premier, Elias...
Greece: Impasse in Athens
Athenians last week were wondering whether their country had a government or not. The parliamentary session convened by young King Constantine for a vote of...
Greece: No. 3
For the third time in nine weeks, King Constantine named a new Premier to replace ousted George Papandreou. This time it almost looked as though his man could...
Greece: Slap for the Center
Prime Minister George Papandreou's lure for leftist support in last February's national elections was a pledge to repeal anti-Communist legislation en acted...
Greece: Royal Dilemma
Rising to demand a vote of confidence in Parliament last week, Greek Premier George Anthanassiadis-Novas quoted the author of The Frogs, to describe the man...
GREECE: Canceled Stamps
In its usual fashion of making martyrs out of men who are traitors in their own country, Soviet Russia last month issued a postage stamp honoring Greek...
Greece: Back to the Polls
Though 75-year-old Middle-Reader George Papandreou won November's Greek elections, his party fell short of a parliamentary majority. A few weeks later,...
Greece: Love, Tears & 100,000 Flowers
Byron died to help give Greece a Danish King, and last week Greece and Denmark joyously readied for a royal wedding to gladden a Romantic poet's art: the love...
GREECE: Account Overdrawn
Still vivid in the memory of most Athenians is the day in May 1941 when 19-year-old Emmanuel Glezos slipped silently into the ruins atop the Acropolis and tore...
