For the first time since the April 21, 1967 military coup that brought George Papadopoulos and his army colleagues to power, tanks and armored vehicles rumbled through the streets of Athens last week. They were there to battle rioting students who, in an abortive one-day rebellion, had precipitated the most serious civil disturbance in Greece in years.
Shouting "Bread, education, freedom!" thousands of students, many of them carrying clubs, surged through downtown Athens, where they started fires and tied up traffic. Some used appropriated buses as barricades, from which they peppered police...
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