Word: crete
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leading candidate appears to be Fred Ferdindoupolus, three-time Crete Ping-Pong champion. "I plan to throw in my 100-page thesis on "Classic Lines in Ancient Greek Ping-Pong Courts" and see how it bounces, ha ha ha," Ferdindoupolus said...
...York City. In the three-year history of the on-and-off truce negotiations, procedure has often tended to become substance. The Arabs want discussions held at the U.N., where international pressure is on Israel to settle, and at the ambassadorial level. Israel wants talks held at Cyprus, Rhodes, Crete or some other Mediterranean location, and at the foreign minister level. The Israelis want face-to-face negotiations; the Egyptians and Jordanians...
STYLIANOS Pattakos resembles a Bavarian butcher-balding, with arching, bushy eyebrows and a well-fed physique. He comes from Crete and possesses the unassuming generosity and vengeful temper which is characteristic of his fellow islanders. So great is his pride that the night before the coup, he gave a pistol to his eldest daughter and told her that if she did not hear from him before 3 a.m. the following morning, she must shoot her mother, her younger sister, and herself...
Lebanese jet fighters scrambled after the slow propeller-driven Martin, but it managed to escape them. Finally, after flying an erratic course over the Mediterranean, the plane was forced to make a landing to refuel at Heraklion airport in Crete. There, police at once arrested the five men aboard, including the pilot, former U.S. Air Force Lieut. Colonel John Moore, 50, and Copilot Philip Amos, 30. Crete police also seized 13 bags of hashish worth about $4,000,000 on the American market...