Volume 9, Number 8 · November 9, 1967
Letter from Greece
By Ronald Steel
'We went to bed like men,' the bartender said, glancing to see whether any of his customers might be listening, 'and we woke up like sheep. That's what happened to us Greeks.' The scene was a sun-baked island in the Aegean, a mecca for pale tourists in search of a fast tan, picturesque peasants, and a wine-dark sea. But it could have been anywhere in this wounded land which overnight was transformed from a parliamentary democracy into a military dictatorship.
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