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| VII. The Contemporary Period, 1945–2000 > B. Europe, 1945–2000 > 7. Eastern Europe, 1945–2000 > f. Greece > 1968, Sept. 29 | ||||
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| The Encyclopedia of World History. 2001. |
| 1968, Sept. 29 | |
| A new constitution, drafted by the military government, was approved by an overwhelming popular vote. It greatly reduced the royal power, though it still defined Greece as a “crowned democracy.” The parliament was to be deprived of most of its authority, which was vested instead in the military. Civil rights and political rights, though recognized, were kept in abeyance. | 1 |
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| The United States partly lifted the embargo on military supplies, chiefly because of Greece's importance in the developing naval tension in the eastern Mediterranean. | 2 |
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| The right to form trade unions and the right to assembly were restored, to demonstrate the intention of the dictatorship eventually to reestablish representative institutions. Additional rights were restored in April 1969. | 3 |
| The Encyclopedia of World History, Sixth edition. Peter N. Stearns, general editor. Copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Maps by Mary Reilly, copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. | |
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