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fV MARGARET CHANT PAPANDREOU autographs copies of her new book, "Nightmare In Athens" at Biean Book Shop in Elmhurst, Monday 1 night, Mar. ,1, with the assistance of shop owner John Bican. Margaret, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Chant of Elmhurst and wife of ^ *« •<-,,,. Andreas Papandreou, economist, professor and now leader of a move- • «- n * ment to restore freedom to Greece, describes the political turmoil of. MI'S* *&pCllldr -*. r ..- — t V f £ #*V^ vrtd M^ v*¥ 1 \ • CHRISTMAS WAS happier than years before for Papandreou and Santa Claus or St. Vassilios, as they • children in Greek mountain villages. Mrs. Andreas know him. A York graduate, she is the former Margaret •, Papandreou (holding * child) appealed to York high stu- Chant/ daughter of Mr. end Mrs. Douglas^ Chant, 145 • dents For clothing last October. They responded with Clinton av,, Elmhurst. Her father-in-law is the former "* half a ton of wearing apparel which was sent to the minister of Greece./ Hellenic region of Greece and distributed by Mrs. !Press Publications m t Page 9 ^ TW-3/22.3/23,,66 *-•--"* m .#e Papandreous Visit Elmhursft, § ^sS^iU 't.iSi' ' ^- "^ A. .i. ' V- "•PA REUNITED FOR A WHILE, Margaret Chanf sophomore at York high school. His parents contin Papandreou, her husband, Andreas, and son, George, ued their tour of the U.S. this week hoping to rally talk in the kitchen of Margaret's parents, Mr. and support for the return of democratic government Mrs. Douglas Chant, in Elmhurst. George, IS, is a to Greece. JL # j-^;* •-^>*f-j^vyvrr*wff-*,"'*^t'**fr^~—"p * if' •"*«' r*-—^'"^vs:'-?*' %p: ^ ^"•^^ww^Wi-jrs^ww^ r'W',^Tl'7V'[ 5 ; jVThey broke in wearing full bat- tl<; dress, with hand grenades j by GREG MAHONEY hooked on their belts and carrying machine guns," Margaret recalled ^ Uniformed men stood guard out- as she spoke to an interviewer in f side the Elmhurst home of Mr. and the kitchen of the Chant home this 1 Mrs. Douglas Chant this week, They week. "Six of them came into the were friendly guards, assigned to house, while another 30 surround protect the special house guests of ed it. the Chants. "At first we thought it was a The visitors were exiled Greek gang of hired terrorists sent to political leader Andreas Papandreou kill Andreas on the spot. We were and his wife, the former Margaret held at gunpoint and when I Chant of Elmhurst. The visit was asked by what authority they had a short one, for the Papandreous broken into our home, one of are on a nation-wide tour to, as Mar them replied 'Because we like it,. garet put it, "present the cause of , . m'am.'" democracy for Greece." A year ago this spring, the Papan ' Andreas and son, George, then 14, dreous and the Chants also had uni had stayed in the upper part of the formed men outside their house, house. When the officers broke in, men sent to persecute and arrest, George boosted his father up on the not to protect. This time, it was the roof above the terrace. Chants who were visiting the Papan j Meanwhile, Margaret, her other dreous and the setting was Athens. children and her parents were held It was 2:30 a.m. on a Friday, Apr. at gun and bayonet-point while the 21, 1967, Margaret recalls. She, her insurgents searched the house shout parents, her husband and their four ing "Where's Andreas . . . We want children were asleep when shots on I Andreas." the street awoke them to a reign | The officers finally found George of terror. A group of military offi j on the upstairs terrace. They held cers had begun their takeover of a gun at his head and threatened to Greece and Andreas Papandreou kill him if he would not tell where was high on their list of ^"unde his father was hiding. t sirables.' """" *" When Andreas, who was hiding _,\a _-«isi..wnl Q > ~M& itxt* ; wv.'&u 15 jfeet above them, heard this, he jumped down and surrendered. He wai; taken away to prison. H » LONG-DISTANCE PHONE calls were commonplace at the Chant .- home in Elmhurst this week. Margaret Chant Papandreou takes one of the many calls she and her husband, Andreas, receive as they tour the U.S. to rally support against the military junta that has taken over Greece*- *> . .,-•• , .. fa &._.,»« ; (Press Publications Pnoto) —. ^»bfrtWpt-If,?*' y T"1 '?»«••!• ^ "i.'flEliP'J'^'P-T.t Press Publications lTF-3/28-3/29, '68 *«—>*« K ' ."WE DIDN'T know whethe:rr 'itine was alive or dead until the next "GEORGE COULD not tolerate day," Margaret said, "when a note living under a regime which bans was delivered by soldiers in an freedom of speech," his mother armored truck asking for his said. "He's very politically minded." clothes." Politics is the "sour of the While Andreas languished in 'Greek people, Margaret explained, prison with the thousands of oth and the military junta "has "cut er political leaders rounded up in \ Jthe soul out of the Greeks. It has 1 the coup, his wife, children aiitt | Stopped the joy of life for them. in-laws were kept under surevil- They've stopped talking, they've lance. They were allowed to waJc j stopped going to the taverns and <* in the streets, but, according to j restaurants, they stopped reading f.J newspapers which they realize are ,- the propaganda voices of the gov- ; ernment." • "They've changed the schools and have removed any courses on de mocracy, quite an ironic thing in a country which is the birthplace of democracy," Margaret, "there was always sonje- • The junta has only-minority sup one behind me." .1 port, Margaret said. "Andreas be Through the efforts of friends in lieves that the future is not very Elmhurst and throughout the U.S. bright for the junta. Although they and through the Congressmen who are the reactionary right, they have received letters and phone calls on no support from a major political the oppression, Andreas was re wing nor from the masses. The leased from prison on Christmas Greeks are freedom lovers and Eve, 1967. The" Chants had returned won't stand to be enslaved like ani home in September, taking their mals." grandson, George, with them and The Papandreous believe that the enrolling him as a sophomore at junta will be overthrown and de York high school. The Papandreous mocracy resored, if not by outside left Greece on Jan.. 16 and moved diplomatic pressure from the U.S. their other three children to an and Western Europe, then by the apartment in Paris. Greek people themselves. Margaret Left behind and still under sur and Andreas hope to stir up U.S. veillance is Andreas' father, George, enthusiasm for the Greek cause, with deposed prime minister. Andreas the able assistance of another Greek had served as a deputy in the Greek expatriot, actress Melina Mercouri. parliament and was his country's "Melina is loved by the Greek minister of economic coordination. people more than ever," Margaret Margaret met Andreas when he said, "because she's a fighter and was a professor of economics at the the Greeks love a fighter." University of Minnesota. They were married in 1951 and have lived "on and off" in Greece since 1959. Their ,; AS FOR THE Papandreous' plans other children are Gayle, 13; Nick, £or the future, Margaret says "it's^ 11; and Andreas, 9. The Papandreous decided to send son George to live with his grand parents and uncles and aunts so jStill up in the air." They plan to that he would have the freedom of return to Paris in April. speech, thought and education that To return to Greece now would is now denied his generation |in 'jnean imprisonment again—and pos Greece. , v / sibly worse—for Andreas. Even in the U.S. he has received threats on his life. The policemen who guard ed the Chant house in Elmhurst made sure the threats were not car ried out. fj "Even if we could go back, we V Wouldn't," said Margaret Chant PJI- " pandreau, "not under this regimei" , fit W *» — f by GREG MAHONEY economist, college professor, Greek The dust cover of a new book tells political leader and now the head of this about its author: "Her the resistance to the military dic husband—a leader of the democratic tatorship in Greece. # opposition— in jail; her children in Margaret Papandreou and her danger; an American woman book will be at the Bican Book Shop, describes her confrontation with the 122 S. York, Elmhurst, next Monday, junta ruling Greece." Mar. 1, starting at 7:30 p.m. That woman and the author of the Later in the month she will take book, "Nightmare In Athens" the -book and its message to (Prentice-Hall, 1970) is Margaret Washington, D.C. as she and her Chant Papandreou, daughter of Mr. husband continue their campaign to and Mrs. Douglas Chant of Elmhurst restore democracy to Greece. and wife of Andreas Papandreou, The book, she explains in the THE PAPANDREOUS—George, Margaret and Andreas in 1963 four years before the coup. preface, " ' Is my In terpretation as an observer and ! "An armed rebellion tcnFeT"" participant in the events which led ! Greece of the dictatorship is really •j to the coup of the long dark night - j. not likely, nor would we want to i when the dictators struck Greece, J i see Greece torn by another civil lof the attempt to survive morally S '• war," Margaret told a Press and physically under a modern \ Publications reporter during that dictatorship." visit this month. "There is, however, a tremendous amount of "Nightmare In Athens" recounts passive rebellion." Margaret's first meeting Andreas Papandreou in Minneapolis in 1948 when she was a public relations External protest and resistance to woman (Chant, Inc.) and he an the junta dictatorship is centered in associate professor of economics at the Panhellenic Liberation the University of Minnesota . . Movement headed by Andreas. their marriage in August, 1950 . . . "Andreas' chief plank," his wife their settling in Greece in 1961 . . . explains, "is that the United States Andreas' involvement in Greek should cut all military aid to Greece politics and government under the to show its disapproval of the prime ministry of his father, George regime. But the Pentagon doesn't Papandreau . . . want to rock the boat." . . . The dismissal of the elder Margaret Papandeou has little Papandreou by King Constantine in love or respect for the State the summer of 1965 and the charges Department and its policy toward that Andreas was involved in a plot Greece. The U.S. is more interested within the Greek army to oust the in keeping a stable government and king, remove Greece from NATO strong NATO fortress in Greece than •and establish a socialist-communist in securing democracy for its regime, . .coup d'etat in April, 1967 people, the Papandreous contend. by a military junta . . . Andreas' While Andreas "was in prison, arrest and imprisonment for more Margaret waged a paper war to free than eight months and Margaret's him, writing hundreds of letters to attempts to free him—and Greece. friends, relatives, U.S. officials and Andreas was released on professional colleagues of Andreas. Christmas Eve, 1967. He and These and letters written before the Margaret and their four children, coup were used by Margaret in George, (now 18 and a student at writing "Nightmare In Athens." Elmhurst college), Gayle (Sophia), Nick and Andreas, subsequently "These letters, clippings from moved to Paris, to Sweden and then Greek and foreign newspapers to Canada, where Andreas is and my own memory of the events professor of economics at the were the basis of the book," she University of York in Toronto. ,says. Writing it was really a kind j When Andreas was invited to | of catharsis." f •f address students at the University of Wisconsin earlier this month, he and *- w" Margaret continues to write in- Margaret managed to spend a day in behalf of her husband and his the Elmhurst home of the Chants. I movement, including letters to "UnfiEfTan earlieFvfsit to Elmhurst;" three months after Andreas' release $. from prison, there were no guards outside' the house and the at mosphere was a little more relaxed, i» 1 -X-Z— f MAGGIE, WHO formerly BY GEORGE WELLER i had her own public relations* )aily News Foreign Service j i'irm in Minneapolis, explains Constantiner-—een&adicting ATHENS—Margaret Papan-^ ner distribution of letters in| Margaret's White House letter, dr'eou, daughter-in-law of for-i' the United States, without reJ wrote the elder Papandreou, mer prime minister George]! striding their publication, as "Never at any moment or in Papandreou, denied Friday thati; follows: any manner have I denied that letters she wrote to the United "1 am accustomed to func it is the right of the prime States were meant to influence tioning in a democracy where minister to replace one of his , U.S. action or policy. a citizen is free to express his ministers. I ask myself how it Her only motive in writing opinion and urge people to is possible for you to state ; the letters, including one to share his concern, where one things that do not correspond j Lady Bird Johnson, she said, can speak frankly and forth- with the actual facte8' ••», * was a hope that they would rightly and stand up for one's "motivate politicians" to "look beliefs. It was in this spirit I into the facts." wrote the letters." Margare.1, formerly of Elm- Maggie, tall, slim and articu hurst, 111., who is called "Mag late, is no political amateur. JMAGGIE, daughter of a gie" by the Greeks, is the wife She helped guide her novice Chicago auto parts dealer and of'Ariclreas Papandreou, son of professor husband to victory eldest of five sisters, finds her George. Andreas was instru in Patras in the election in the mental in marshaling the votes spring of 1964. self accused of attacking the by which his father's support Her experience as a Minne institution of monarchy. ers overthrew the George Ath- apolis delegate in the Minne "That is a misinterpretation," anasiadis Novas cabinet. sota Democratic campaigns for she says. "I have respect for the He also has been under mili Adlai Stevenson, Orville free institutions of this country. I t tary investigation because of man and Hubert Humphrey made it clear that my father- his alleged link to Aspida, the made her adept and intuitive* in-law does not raise the issue leftist anti-NATO faction in the She became famous in Patras, of monarchy, yes or no, but Greek armed forces, and Mag the manner in which the king gie was called to testify before functions in this country. One the military tribunal investigat of my foremost concerns was ing her husband. that the situation might be ex ploited by the far left." IN AN interview in her home the. Papandreou home town/ at an Athens suburb, Maggie foi her answer to new-found Maggie says that "a con said: - ! "cousins" who insisted on em* tributing factor" in her inter "The call to testify is a re b/;acing her: "Are you a famify vention was the "vicious at sult of statements I made in cousin or a political cousin?" tacks on my husband in the my letters to friends in Amer press. I know that this is a ica. My letters reached the CRITICS charge that Mag part of political life, but I felt press, although this was not my gie made - the gulf between my husband's side had never intent." Constantine and the majority been adequately explained." In her letters, Margaret had party worse by her bold criti When Maggie told her lauded her father-in-law for cism of Constantine. She wrote father-in-law she was appealing permitting a rightist general to the White House, "The king to the White House and her remain who "was a pro-royal has no right, according to the faculty friends, the ex-premier ist to boot. This was the carrot constitution, not to sign any was taken aback. He wanted to- handed to the king so other change in his cabinet the prime kfiow: "Did you say anything) changes could be made." minister wants to make." about monarchy or commu7 Margaret was questioned by The reference was to the nism?" I the intelligence officers about king's having blocked George her contention that in the army Papandreou's plan to drop "under our noses the profes from the cabinet anti-Commu sionals had prepared a trap. nist Defense Minister Peter Stories started leaking out that i Garoufalias and take the post officers under inquiry had writ LhirSSCtfr-* § ten depositions asserting that Andreas Papandreou was their (rue leader. ft One of the cashiered officers has tcstifiei that he approached Andreas for support and got a promise, but Andreas denies that. ft y--i M a-C,A £A iL'/ /JFUJS Qm ^J ?&£ • VJ-T"* BY SAM MODIANO [CiicagO TribuiK Press Servkil ATHENS, Jan. 13-Greek cit izens are viewing with mixed 1 emotions the imminent and probably final departure from jjthis country of Andreas Pap- £ andreou. In seven years of residence in Athens and an extraordinary career in Greek politics, he has made himself one of the most controversial figures.in the nation's modern •v history. It is said in Athens that Papandreou has received four offers of university posts in f Sweden, Canada and the United f States. Among these are one at Northwestern university and Andreas Papandreon another at Berkeley, Cal. Helped Bring" on Coup Center Union party led to the t military coup that ended demo Observers believe Papan- cratic processes in the country dreou's hair-trigger temper, his last April, observers say. shiftiness in obtaining and The military junta retains its discarding partners,-his impa rule of Greece, altho it is tience and willingness to link considered friendly to King himself with communist Constantine. * groups, were catalyists that Papandreou's falher, George, ihave contributed to the present a veteran of Greek politics and national Greek political mud the major builder of the Cen dle. ter Union organization, recent-' Papandreou's open and public ly said of his son: * *> '*< campaign to dethrone King "His friends have ^ruined] Constantine provided a major leverage that ultimately result-1 ed in the flight of the king and' his royal household to Rome last Dec, 14, it is believed. t His aggressive and reportedly, vicious campaign for personal election and overwhelming par liamentary rfttfjigtji for his /? // -rPifiuAlf. fA*}l*l-tf68 [Continued from first page]"* him; liis foes have made him a god." Why He Failed Other students of the Greek C7 political scene told me: "Pa- pandrcou failed because he was eager to gain absolute power for himself. He had no scruples in choosing his means. He failed." • Still others in the Athens political arena have said that Papandreou, with a more mod erate ambition and better appreciation of the political climate of Greece, would have been able to govern a prosper ous, democratic nation as successor to his father and leader of a progressive and lib eral party. Undoubtedly all these sum mations and statements are true. But Papandreou seeming ^^^r^^J, f\C ^1 ly cut himself off from any real Greek sympathy by his partici pation in the infamous and now reasonably well documented George Papandreou poses for family picture with his daughter-in- Aspida [Shield] plot. This was hatched by a group of young law, the former Margaret Chant of Elmhurst, III., and her children, from Greek''military "officers, report **left?'Georgc,'«13f-Sophie,-ll,'Nick, 9, and Andrico, G. edly with the assistance and guidance of Papandreou. some very senior commanders senior generals also were de Papandreou was represented in and Andreas Papandreou. tained. Athens by Edmund G. Brown, j Their intention was to over Andreas Papandreou was a Question of Tribunal formerly governor of Califor throw the monarchy, withdraw member of parliament at the nia. Brown was governor when from the North Atlantic Treaty Another sweeping and unre time, having been elected from stricted inquiry into the Aspida Papandreou was head of the "organization, open the country economics department of the, to the Communists [thus giving his father's constituency of affair was launched. Authori Patras. In this position he was ties said they had not deter state university at BerkeleJ^^Kj the Soviet Union its foothold on 1961, and the two becaS^ the northern shores of the untouchable by the civil courts mined whether to charge the and he did little to deny the junior Papandreou with "of acquainted then, Brown pre Mediterranean], close out dicted after conferences in American bases, and silence rumors of his participation in fenses against the state" or the overthrow plotting. with outright treason. There Athens, that his client "prob Voice of America broadcasts to ably would be allowed to return the middle east. Demanded Defense Post also was the question of whether he, as a civilian, to the United States." . The program was so foreign So strong did the younger ( Papandreou consider his politi should be tried by military or One other facet of the Aspida (to Papandreou's background of cal ramparts that in July, 1966, civil tribunal. arrest involved the publication American education, political he demanded that King Con- During the summer of 1907, of a letter from Papandreou's orientation, and his supposedly stantine turn over the defense the junta, headed by Gen. wife, the former Margaret •highly conservative economic ministry to him. When the Gregorios Spandidakis, war Chant' of Elmhurst, 111., to •doctorate obtained at Harvard young king refused—having hero chief of staff of the Greek American friends reportedly in university, that, upon its dis heard all the reports and military establishment, sought Washington. The document was covery in 1965, his participation knowing well the implacable means to avoid a pubic trial. At reprinted in full in Greek was widely doubted. intention of Papandreou to end one point there was planning newspapers July 28, and for the banishment of Papan termed editorially "a political Grivas Forced Inquiry the monarchy—Fapandreau re signed a ministerial portfolio. dreou. Then on Aug. 27, an scandal." Initial accusations in connec Athens public prosecutor filed tion with the Aspida plot came His intention, however, was a indictment—civil in form— Warned Against Military I from Gen. George Grivas, to overthrow the government of against Andreas Papandreou Mrs. Papandreou urged in . commander of Greek Cypriot his father's party by demand and 10 others, charging con her letter [which she later [ forces and a leader of the ing a vote of confidence, thru spiracy to commit high treason. declared was dispatched to | rebels who fought Britain's rule supporters remaining in the friends for private circulation ,of Cyprus. Grivas' reports of parliament. It was at this point, A month earlier Papandreou only] that "unless a strong ''suspicious activities among the April 14, 1967, that the parlia had been placed in the Avernoff government is formed in young officers of units sta ment was dissolved by royal prison in Athens. There physi Greece a military takeover will tioned in Cyprus were "played decree and the junta—suppos cians, examining him in routine occur . . . America must down" by George Papandreou, edly moving desperately to the fashion, discovered that tuber support the people of Greece." Andrea's father who was then king's defense—took power. culosis, previously arrested, She also urged: "Inform Amer premier of Greece. Both Papandieous were de had recurred in virulent fonn. ican officials of the situation." (Grivas gathered further evi- tained by the military within Johnson Concerned This document was dated dtpce and presented it to King hours but were not immediately No trial was convened. Dur several days before parliament Ci|nstantine, forcing George imprisoned. Instead they were ing August and September, last was dissolved. *m£ Papandreou to institute an in kept for some weeks in- a year, academic groups in the Miss Chant met Papano^P quiry. This led to the arrest of residential hotel outside United States exerted pressure while she was a student at tee 10 junior officers. Subsequent Athens. Military officers rang on the state department and University of Minnesota aijd confirmations of the existence ing in age and rank from the upon Greek governmental married him in 1931 *. Sl'te of a wide-spread, well-planned most junior to some of the. groups in behalf of Papandreou. retained her American citizen secret organization involved country's most respected, and As early as last June, ship but her husband's was automatically lifted by state) department rules when he was elected to the Greek parliament in 1964. * * FV Hated artfinrttiir^ Papandreou's entire career h •""•. I {*• The job brought Andreas' has followed a pattern of back under the influence of his violent change. Born in Chios in father. Two years later, 1964, 1909, he studied law in Athens i he was elected to parliament •university. When only 20, he j under his paternal patron and left the school and Greece became "minister to the-prime because his father had deserted minister". This meant he ha*d a his nfother to remarry. The} portfolio in his father's office, second wife was then one of the elder Papandreou having Greece's greatest actresses. (won a parliamentary majority- Taught at Northwestern < ['and the premiership in the The young Papandreou did same election. not leave Europe until 1940, "It is unfortunate that his when Nazi armies overran ambition was not satisifed with Greece. He went to the United a role in the shadow of his States, volunteered for the navy powerful father," a veteran and obtained American citizen politician commented. ship in 1945. A brilliant student, j Last Dec. 23, Col. George ,he entered Harvard and ob- Papadopoulos, acting for the \ tained a doctorate in economics junta, announced an amnesty by 1950. He instructed at [for Papandreou and 300 other Minnesota for two years, was prisoners, many being officers an assistant professor at ;. already sentenced for their Northwestern university for parts in the Aspida plot. two years and then became Andreas left his prison cell on head of the economics depart ; Christmas eve, looking 10 years ment at the University of ' older than the day he entered California. \ prison some months earlier. He returned to Greece in Can Go Anywhere ' 1929, as a Fulbright fellow to Since then he has been investigate the country's eco informed that he may have a nomic condition. Two years Greek passport and "go any later, Premier Constantine where in the world he wishes." Karamanlis, founder of the The United States embassy in right wing National Radical Athens has informed Mrs. party and chief political op- Papandreou that her husband .ponent of the elder Papan- would be granted a visa for a I dreou, invited Andreas to come return to the United States. She back to Greece as economic i and their two children continue adviser to the Central bank,] Ho hold American passports and with a $36,000 annual salary. can travel with him at their This was one of the highest sown decision. <*"——-.. *••• ever paid a civil servant. , When I asked Karamanlis why he made it, he replied: "I wanted to tame his father and make him understand that Greece like the United Stales and Britain should have two political parties, succeeding each other in power, without personal antagonisms that have tbadly damaged demse*6tic~i,a- 'stitutions of this country." ^/^ '•"" " ' * "~ > **y*4U TfTW^WJ'? ill r? ttvporavtyf yr*mwt"t ju JVB: ^ i ;•*'-<*^t* <£ 4 . *""^ ^* -X MRS. ANDREAS Papandreou (right), the former Margaret Chant of Elm. hurst, hosted Lady Bird Johnson during the president's wife's recent" visit to Athens. With them is Mrs. Henry R. Labouisse, wife of the Greek Ambassador to the U.S. In the background is the acropolis. Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Chant, 145 Clinton, Mrs. Papandreou is the first lady of Greece. She was graduated from York high school and the University of Minnesota. Mr. and Mrs. Papandreou make their home in Psyhkico, a small town outside Athens. They have four children. ,.....,i. „,_ « * •A.^i^^^^^'i-'^^-^^'-^'^^^ ^i**#i*sJiii _in «»•***"* a»MCT*»»»rawww^tt^-um >, -^rr; BY GEORGE WELLER majority, but Maggie's margin ZJ«j7y jVtrn's Foreign Service looks bigger. Even Wally t Simpson never succeeded in ATHENS—America's "roy getting herself denounced by a al women." Wallis Warfield foreign minister. But Maggie Simpson, Grace Kelly and has knocked the king's men for Hope Cook, now have an im a loop. probable rival in Greece in a A bitter attack in Parliament girl named Maggie from Elm- against Maggie by Foreign hurst, 111. Minister George Melas slopped She was just plain Maggie Monday night's session in a, Chant' back home and she's near riot- lasting 10 minutes. already "Maggie" to the mil •Maggie's supporters in the ma lions who eat olives with bread jority Center Union Party tried and drink resin wine. to maul the royalist minister, But Greece's new royalist threw paper balls and news cabinet insists that this edu papers at him and drove him cated, statuesque Maggie is an temporarily from the platform. enemy of the throne. That's because she is now Maggie MAGGIE'S defect is con Papandreou, daughter-in-law doned by American men but and adviser of George Papan unforgivable to Greeks: she dreou, the 77-year-Md cx- knows too much about politics premier fighting King Con and shows it. stantino, i Melas, a withered 71-year- The elder Papandreou has a old diplomat with vulpine eyes CHICAGO DAILY NEWS, Tuesday, AueTynfa * 7. ." '.•• ™ ••—• TOT • »y " '**^ V**? T— —»>i'. w in a Mephistophelean face, "This gracious lady forecast condemned Maggie, who is with certainty," Mclas angrily low-voiced, tall and formidably told a group of 100 foreign kind-hearted; for writing what correspondents, "not only the ' he called "ugly letters" to Mrs, fact that a divergency of view Lyndon B. Johnson, Dean would occur between king and Rusk, Hubert Humphrey and premier, but also with great assorted college professors. precision what events would "The dear lady is strangely follow this clash. All. her fore 'concerned," he said bitterly. casts were curiously confirmed What soured the veteran by events." ' minister—sometimes known as "the sweetest of Greece's mo MAGGIE'S delphic cunning, lasses"—was that Maggie fore Meias revealed, was actually saw the future too well. due simply to her being tipped Maggie can prophesy trou off beforehand by her father-, ble coming to King Constan in-law. tino with more accuracy than Melas attacked Maggie, whom any secress since the priestesses he called "the gracious Mrs,. of Delphi. ,Yet,shclcarned;her ,-Papandreou," for "representing dark arts by campaigning for the king as acting unconstituJ the l:;tc Adlai E. Stevenson and tionally and against the will of! £oin<; to journalism school, at the people. She moreover ex-^ the University of Minnesota. horts an intervention of the U.S.A. to save democratic ter counsellor, Norbert An- old Andreas Papaodreou, whom , ideals in Greece." schuetz, who favored her she married in Nevada in 1951 rf Melas drew this conclusion father-in-law's majority. after they met while he was a i from Maggie's White House professor of economics at the Maggie's letter, as read out University of Minnesota. [ letters,, in which she said that if indignantly by Melas, closed Constantinc dumped her father- with an appeal to Mrs. John He has threatened Athenian in-law, leader of the parlia newspapers with libel suits. mentary majority, "the king son: Besides linking him with a left will be taking an unconstitu "If America has n*» involve ist army plot, they charge that tional, undemocratic act against ment, and 1 hope she hasn't, he is still collecting his profes the will of the people and the then she must indicate she sor's salary from the University horrible thing for me as an stands on the side of democ of California. American is to have Americans racy. I write this letter to you linked up with something so The direct attack by Melas against our own democratic personally because of our did not appear to have helped ideals." friendship, second because you much a palace cabinet that is are a woman of ideals of patri in its third week but still lacks any parliamentary support. MAGGIE, in her first letter otism and deep concern that to Lady Bird, declared that the your husband succeed in ex , But whether the government American embassy was divided pressing America — the real of Premier George Athanasi- into two camps. In one were America — throughout the adas Novas can weather the the CIA and military attaches, world." Wednesday when Parliament is who favored the king and his storm may be determined ! armed forces. In the other were THE ATTACK on Maggie Wednesday when Parliament is Henry Labouissc (ambassador opened up a new front for her expected ,to take a vote of until last March) and the minis- overworked husband, 47-year- confidence. Du Page has connection to Greece By Tasia Kawadias During her visit to the United States, Margaret Papandrcou, wife . of Greek Premier Andreas Papan- 1 dreou, has scheduled university speaking engagements at Harvard and Yale and Wellcsley College in the East—and the College o£ Du Page. A native of Elmhurst in Du Page County, she was the guest of honor at a small gathering over the week end at the college in Glen Ellyn, where she talked about relations be Trtuw phoe by John OzMian tween Greece and Turkey, world Margaret Papandreou [right], wife of Greek Premier and Meriyn Lawrence at a College of Du Page re- wide nuclear disarmament, women Andreas. Papandreou, talks to Jane Spirgel [left] caption in ,the Elmhurst native's honor. in politics and having been the star of York High School's girls basket An ardent feminist, her primary Reforms in Greek law now allow Girls Athletic Association. The ball team. .» focus today is Women for a Mean women in that country to have an paper carried her semi-humor-gos j The self-described "expert tree ingful Summit, an international um abortion and purchase an automo sip column that included goings-on brella group pressuring the two bile without a man's consent. at the school. climber of Clinton Avenue" said Papandreou herself protested out she was once asked if she had ever superpowers for nuclear test bans, Papandrcou defended her country total disarmament and a halt to the side the Greek (parliament during in Friday's confrontation with Tur dreamed of being the wife of arms race in space. the abortion controversy last sum Greece's prime minister. ^"J mer. key that almost brought the two na "I said 'No,' 1 dreamed I would "The Iranscam, while an embar tions to war. Turkey backed off grow up to be the prime minister of rassment domestically, may be the "1 told my husband what 1 was plans to send ships into the Aegean Greece," Margaret Papandrcou, 63, springboard for a new summit," she going to do and he just shook his Sea Saturday after Greece threat-, said. said. "The Gorbachev proposal to head and said, 'I guess you have to encd to block the entry and close a, remove medium-range missiles in do what you have to do,' " site said. U.S. Navy communications base The former Margaret Chant met Europe may be a real break in the The author of "Nightmare in near Athens. Andreas Papandreou in a Min negotiations." Athens," an autobiographical ac "Greece is morally right on this," neapolis dentist's office in 194S. count of the 1967 junta takeover in Papandrcou said. "This is a ques She operated a small public rela -World peace depends largely on Greece, Papandreou traced her tion of continental shelf rights. Tur tions firm; he was an associate pro women's roles in the political arena, journalistic roots to the school key has sent ships into the waters, fessor of economics at the Universi- she said. "It's the bastion of male newspaper of York High School, our sovereign territory, thus creating i ty of Minnesota. power that is difficult to crack." where she also was active in the provocation. (EWtBftO (Crib Wit' Tuesday, March 31,1987. Inside Greece-Du Page connection Margaret Papandreou, wife of the Greek premier, recalls her years of growing up In suburban Elmhurst at a speaking engage ment at College of Du Page. Page 7.