Word: aegean
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most ominous sign of the new repression is the reopening of the ancient prison on Yiaros, a bleak Aegean island 75 miles from Athens that has been used as a penal colony since Roman days. The island is legendary for its monstrous rats and vipers and a unique torture: jailers tossing a naked prisoner into a sack with a frightened cat and then dumping them into the chilly waters of the Aegean. Many a Greek has borne the scars produced by that experience. The hundred prisoners now held on the island are a mixed lot of political dissidents, including former...
...distract the populace from such hardships, the regime has jingoistically renewed the ancient feud with Turkey. The Cyprus dispute has been revived, and there is a new argument over Turkish rights to drill for oil in the Aegean. Relations with the U.S. are also clouded. Last year, aware that the mood of the U.S. Congress was to cut off the 1973 grant of $15 million in military aid, the Greek government on its own eliminated it. Junta leaders, who have given up their American limousines in favor of Mercedes-Benzes, have blocked the U.S. Navy's plans to home...
According to junta spokesmen, the plot called for "as many as possible" of the Greek navy's ten destroyers and seven submarines to rendezvous at the Aegean island of Syros. From there, an ultimatum would be issued to the junta in Athens: either restore democracy or face a blockade of Greece's two principal ports. Piraeus and Salonika...
Digging at widely separated sites -one on an island in the Aegean Sea, the other in western Iran-two teams of archaeologists recently made discoveries that may require passages of ancient history to be rewritten. Already, the objects uncovered by the scientists are shedding new light on two mighty empires of antiquity...
...digs are ill-protected by a skeleton force of guards, who are paid an average $50 per month-not a salary likely to attract qualified men capable of thwarting organized robbers like the trio who, in 1968, broke into the Izmir Fair Archaeological Museum, rifled its collection of antique Aegean jewelry, vases and marble carvings, and crushed the watchman's skull with a stolen statue as they departed...