George Papadopoulos, who headed a military dictatorship that dominated Greece in the late 1960's and early 1970's and which was widely reported to have tortured and imprisoned opponents of its rule, died yesterday in a hospital in Athens. He was 80.
The cause was a heart attack, Agence France-Presse reported. He had been in the hospital since August 1996, for treatment of cancer.
In 1967 Mr. Papadopoulos, then an army colonel, led a bloodless military coup, which overthrew a shaky parliamentary Government.
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