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- <text id=91TT2083>
- <title>
- Sep. 23, 1991: World Notes:Greece
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Sep. 23, 1991 Lost Tribes, Lost Knowledge
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 37
- World Notes
- GREECE
- Editors Twice Barred
- </hdr><body>
- <p> In a standoff between the center-left press and the
- conservative government of Prime Minister Constantine
- Mitsotakis, the editors of seven Greek newspapers went to jail
- last week for terms ranging from five to 10 months rather than
- comply with a new law prohibiting them from publishing
- statements from terrorists. The anti-terrorist legislation,
- which took effect last December, was precipitated in part by the
- 1989 assassination of Mitsotakis' son-in-law by the terrorist
- group known as November 17. The law's intent is to deny
- publicity to the organization, which regularly sends long-winded
- statements to newspapers.
- </p>
- <p> The showdown began June 6, when Serafeim Fyntanidis,
- managing editor of the liberal daily Eleftherotypia, was
- arrested for publishing November 17's claim of responsibility
- for a series of bombings. Six papers followed suit the next day.
- Despite their incarceration in the Korydallos maximum-security
- prison, near Athens, the convicted editors continue to run their
- papers by phone. "The battle we started will not end here," says
- Fyntanidis. "We will continue--in or out of prison."
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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