U.S. Defense Secretary Clifford has admitted that America is supplying the Greek regime with large amounts of munitions. He said that no matter how repugnant the regime's politics are to the U.S., the regime will continue to receive such aid because of its strategic place in the fight against communism.

These are impressions of Greece which a Harvard graduate student brought home from a summer spent touring that nation, as he told them to Allyson Mae '69. The story is clearly biased against the regime, but, we hope, it's also biased in the favor of truth. The student discusses the campaign which the regime was waging to pass its new constitution, the antilibertarian aspects of the document, and American involvement with the regime. As expected, the constitution, which the Sept. 25 issue of Le Monde denounced for making Greece an "undemocratic democracy," was passed in a referendum last weekend, after this article was written.

EVEN Boss Daley's tactics of persuasion are tame next to the coervice pressures the military junta is exercising over the people of Greece.

Gigantic signs reading "Nai" (Yes) are plastered all over the majestic Greek countryside, part of the regime's efforts to get the populace to approve the constitution.

Greek newspapers and other media are rigorously censored and merely act as mouthpieces for the government.

Official propagandists from Athens are briskly at work in all the larger cities and villages, extolling the virtues of the constitution at staged mass meetings.

Everyone who lives within 300 miles of a voting place (and that's practically everybody) must vote or face going to jail. The junta has furthermore created such an oppressive atmosphere that citizens are simply too terrified to vote "no" for fear that they would be singled out for reprisals.

The most terrifying thing I saw first-hand was a mass rally in a medium-size city in the north of Greece. I later learned from some Greek acquaintances that this was typical of the tactics being practiced all over the country.

Troops always attend these "popular rallies. On the way to the meeting places the army shouts slogans like "Long live the Revolution, April 21, 1967"--the day the colonels took over, of course. This time, officers apparently had instructed the 2,000 soldiers to mingle with the crowd in groups of no more than two, and to take off their hats, in order not to be prominent and not to be identified as soldiers in the newspaper photographs.

Most of the city's residents were there--they even brought their kids. They didn't take any chances. It would not be healthy for them to be found elsewhere while a rally was going on.

From where I was standing, right in the middle of the crowd, I could see a clumsily-assembled group of 100 people who punctuated the speech at just the right points with tumultuous applause. The rest of the crowd, in marked contrast to the traditional ebulience of Greek political meetings, were passive. Most people around me did not applaud; people looking out of windows did nothing but glumly watch.

Even the soldiers made no unnecessary noise. They would go through clapping motions without letting their hands make a sound.

The speaker, Stylianos Patakos, Minister of the Interior and one of the leaders of the regime, asked the crowd at one point if anyone wanted to vote "No" to reject the constitution. Complete silence. "You know, it would help us if you voted No," the speaker said. "Then we would have another 16 months in order to construct a new constitution to submit to you. And that new one will be stricter and less democratic than the one we are giving you now."

THE SPEAKER also said Greece will benefit from its years of military control. One of the few who were cheering shouted, "You can let the Army run Greece for a hundred years--and that wouldn't be too long." No one doubts that the Army will want to control Greece for a considerable time to come.

Not a single sign saying "No" is tolerated anywhere in the nation. Opposition is expressed only in hand made signs in remote corners where they might escape official notice. A monstrous blue neon sign reading "Yes" is perched on a hill overlooking the Acropolis right outside of Athens.