Word: elaiohorion
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...Correspondent Wilton Wynn toured the home villages of the four top colonels. On Crete, he visited Aghia Paraskevi (pop. 154), where Pattakos was born. He stopped at Dirahion (pop. 613) in the Peloponnesus, where loannis Ladas grew up, and Gravia (pop. 690), home of Nikolaos Makarezos. He stopped at Elaiohorion (pop. 280), a village surrounded by low hills, wheatfields, vineyards and olive groves, where Papadopoulos' father was schoolmaster. In each town the foundations were the same: the church, the cafe, and a code of ethics grounded in faith and family honor...
...more than houses of worship. They also developed into centers of Greek patriotism and serve as town halls where local problems can be threshed out and the people protected from the world below before they reach the haven of heaven above. The Premier has already remembered his church at Elaiohorion by giving it new pews and a lectern, an icon stand and a bishop's chair. Pattakos' sister Irene, who still lives in Aghia Paraskevi, recalls their religious upbringing. "Mother taught us to make the sign of the cross before sleeping. My brother not only made the sign...
...stream divides the town, the wrinkled village clerk explains why. "It was in 1947, right there," he says pointing. "Ioannis Ladas' mother tried to run across the street, carrying a baby nephew in her arms. Guerrillas shot her down, killed them both. She was a good woman." In Elaiohorion, Mayor and Cafe Proprietor Nikos Papathanasou, a distant cousin of Papadopoulos, was tortured by Communists, and so were three other men. The village doctor was killed by guerrillas and has never been replaced. Greece's foreign relations are now shaped by such intimate memories and private hatreds...
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