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PAPANDREOUMARGARET.Pdf Elmhurst Public Library 125 S. Prospect Ave. • Elmhurst, IL 60126-3298 Imhurst phone (630) 279-8696 • fax (630) 516-1364 PUBLIC LIBRARY www.elmhurstpubliclibrary.org Explore • team • Grow [email protected] This document came from a binder of notable Elmhurst, IL citizens that was kept by librarians for many years. No further information is available about where the information came from. 2010 Pa^a^irtou } fA^vf^ftX CU-a^t O fV <L s 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<ZOlL modern Greece in her book and the 1967 coup d-etat that put the fit C*ivi4> Via ;*-'country under'a military dictatorship. v -1 **( Press Publications Photo) „ ***•&& V WWS *- — — On TV Program Margaret Chant Papandreou, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Chant of Elmhurst and daughter-in- law of the former prime minister of Greece, will discuss "Authoritarian­ ism In Greece' * on WLS-TV (Channel 7) "Perspectives" at 6:30 a.m. Monday through Wednesday, -Mar. 8-10. .~ • . i Mrs- Papandreou; husband of t lnr>V\*wsC Andreas Papandreou, economist, college professor and leader of the opposition to the military dic­ tatorship in Greece, has authored the book, "Nightmare In Athens." Joining in the discussion of modern Greek politics will be University of Chicago political science professors Aristide Zolberg and Phillipe Schmitter. .r £ \ -*. 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.
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