Word: greeke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lebanon and Greek-Turkish clashes on Cyprus. Their bitterest enemies are a group of restless thugs between the ages of 16 and 25 known as Raggare (for their habit of cruising around-ragga in Swedish-in big old American cars). According to one Raggare, the Assyrians are "blackskulls" who deserve to be attacked because "they live off welfare. They sleep until 2. They chase after our Swedish girls." Along with the gypsies and other immigrant groups, they pose the threat of social change, something that neither the hard-drinking, working-class Raggare nor many law-abiding Swedes are willing...
...friends" ought to cheer him up, even though none of them has seen him for three years. When Colin arrives, it is clear that he is past cheering. He is a human cork, with matching brain, who could bob merrily on a tidal wave of disaster. Grief is all Greek...
Alain Gowing, a graduate student in Latin Literature at the University of London, is taking an introductory Greek course and loves it. A graduate of the University of North Carolina, Gowing taught Latin for a while at the Tabor Academy in Marion, Mass., and is brushing up on his Greek to fulfill requirements for a master's degree...
Last week the protests were continuing unabated. In Athens the Parents" Committee of Greek Candidate-Students and Students in Italy staged a demonstration in front of the Greek foreign ministry. "Our kids were psychologically prepared for Italy," fumed Athens pharmacist Evangellos Roussos, president of the committee. "They not only studied Italian, but attended cultural courses. It's inhuman to do this to them." Other parents and students are flying to Italy to protest in person. "The timing of the ban came as a total and complete shock," says Albert Schrager, 54, whose nonprofit Italo-American Medical Education Foundation...
Those students already in the country are also feeling decidedly unwanted, even though the ban affects only newcomers. Since the ruling was announced, Greek. Arabic. Spanish and Iranian graffiti have blossomed on university walls at Bologna. The message: WE WANT TO STAY...