GREECE: The Smiling Juggler

When Spyros Markezinis was almost finished writing his bestselling history of modern Greece, he decided to end it in the mid-1960s and leave the last chapter unwritten. After all, he was prone to observe, "this revolution will be judged by the way it ends." Even though a politician, Markezinis was in no position to predict what course would be taken by the military regime of Dictator George Papadopoulos, which overthrew Greece's constitutional government in 1967.

Now it appears that Markezinis will play a leading role in that unfinished chapter. The Athens-born lawyer...

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