Mr. Burns, in a June 12 letter to Mr. Spyropoulos that was sent to other Greek-American leaders, demanded an apology for suggesting that gunmen of the November 17 group who killed Brig. Stephen Saunders were motivated by a recent State Department report that said Greece was failing to control terrorism. I am appalled that you would make such a charge publicly, especially against your own government. It is the terrorists who are at fault. Another 30 have been wounded, he said.
Terrorism is a deadly matter in Greece.
The people responsible for the attacks are the terrorists themselves, and no one else. Terrorism has been unchecked in Greece for too long. . . . Greece does not need apologists, but encouragement and support, to do the right thing. He noted that Brig. Saunders was killed shortly after the State Department report in May identified November 17 as Greece's most serious terrorist threat in the State Department report.