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The article profiles columnist Helen Vlachos for the magazine "Messimvrini" and published a picture magazine "Eikone" in Greece. Vlachos was exposed to business in which she joined her father at Kathimerini. In 1936, Vlachos participated the Berlin Olympics wherein she interviewed dictator leader Benito Mussolini in Libya, covered the earthquakes incidents in Greece and smaller paper prints from the government's political will.

The article focuses on the rule of colonels in the military-backed regime of Greece Premier George Papadopoulos. It discusses that the Council of Europe will suspend Greece from any further participation in the organization due to political prisoner mistreatment and human right suppression. It highlights that Ambassador to Greece Henry J. Tasca will urge Papadopoulos and his military colleagues to a more democratic rule.

The article focuses on the statement of Constantine Caramanlis, the democratic Premier from 1955 to 1963, about the regime of George Papadopoulos in Greece. Caramanlis lives in exile in Paris, France and expresses his willingness to return to Greece to restore democratic rule. He states that Papadopoulos' regime has disrupted the armed forces, brought damage to the economy and unprecedented brutality. His statement was met with favorable responses from other exiles and the opposition.

The article discusses the presence of 140 registered political parties in Greece in January 1950, which are part of the upcoming elections on March 5, 1950. It says that one of these parties is the National Salvation Party, the emblem of which contains Saint Constantine and his mother Saint Helena. The author adds that other parties are also present like the Greek Orthodox Party, the Large Working Families Party and the National Rebirth Party. The political competition in Salonika led by the Byzantine Party's Michael Angelopoulou is also discussed.

The article focuses on the political condition in Athens, Greece following the military junta which ousted George Papadopoulos. It states that the new government led by Lieutenant General Phaedon Gizikis will still be under the military rule and that Greece will not attain its democracy. According to the author, the junta is influenced by the head of the military police Brigadier General Dimitrios Ioannidis and that they are considering negotiations with former Premier Constantine Caramanlis for the reconciliation between Greece and the Common Market to prevent the country's economic collapse.

The article focuses on the new constitution in Greece led by military men after King Constantine fled to Rome, Italy with the failure of his inept countercoup masterminded by Premier George Papadopoulos in 1967. It mentions that under the new regime of the junta, the monarch will no longer had the power to appoint and dismiss premiers as well as to promote and assign generals. Comments from former U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson regarding the ruling of ex-colonels in Greece are included.

The article profiles Constantine Karamanlis, who is the former Premier in Greece and gave the country a political stability before he lost election to Liberal George Papandreou and was self-imposed exile in Paris, Italy. According to Karamanlis, Greece does not allow the maintenance of dictatorship in any form. Furthermore, Papandreou assures that the conservatives in the transitional government will cooperate in leading Greece back to a parliamentary rule.

The article focuses on the disappearance of the Minoan civilization on the island of Crete, Greece. In 1939, Greek archaeologist Spyridon Marinates suggested that the Minoan civilization was destroyed around 1500 B.C. by falling ash and poisonous fumes from a volcanic eruption on the island of Thera. Professor Anghelos Galanopoulos believes that the eruption of Thera have affected the Exodus and caused the ten plagues of Egypt and the three days of darkness is caused by the volcanic ash.

The article offers information on the political protest by Polytechnic Institute Greek students against the regime of George Papadopoulos in Greece. According to the opposition leader John Zighdis, the protest will bring change to the nation while the government spokesman Byron Stamatopoulos said that the students are fighting a losing battle. The protest is about wanting to have the same kind of freedom from the government enjoyed by other European countries. The response of the police to the protest includes beating and dragging off the demonstrators.

The article reports on the trial of 29 defendants on charges of Communist espionage and intrigue in Athens, Greece. Such trial is said to be the biggest treason trial in any Western nation since the start of the cold war. According to the Greek government, the trial will be a court martial instead of a civil proceeding under terms of a 1936 Greek law and would last a month.

The article discusses the findings of Oxford University professor and philologist Leonard Palmer pertaining to the claim of Oxford archeology professor Sir Arthur Evans that the Cretan-sea-kingdom, whose capital is Knossos, brought Egyptian and Asian civilization to Greece. Palmer rebuts Evans' theory and contends that the stream of culture ran from mainland Greece to Crete. It adds that Palmer's evidence was based on the findings of Evans' assistant, Duncan Mackenzie.