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Eidiki Katastaltiki Antitromokratiki Monada or EKAM (Special Anti-Terrorist Unit), created in 1978 and became part of the Hellenic Police.ΕΚΑΜ operators should take orders only from the General of the Hellenic Police.That unit and its operators have to protect the Greek citizens from terrorism actions such as a bomb,a kidnap or a hijack.
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Famous quotes containing the word greece:
“All that grave weight of America
Cancelled! Like Greece and Rome.
The future in ruins!”
—Louis Simpson (b. 1923)
“When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home,
Let him combat for that of his neighbors;
Let him think of the glories of Greece and of Rome,
And get knocked on the head for his labors.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“The science, the art, the jurisprudence, the chief political and social theories, of the modern world have grown out of Greece and Rome—not by favor of, but in the teeth of, the fundamental teachings of early Christianity, to which science, art, and any serious occupation with the things of this world were alike despicable.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)