Word: greeks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Three weeks after terrorists attacked the Greek excursion vessel City of Poros, killing nine people and wounding 98, the identity and motivation of the attackers remain unknown. But last week a clue emerged when Greek police disclosed that some of the weapons used in the Poros shootings were originally sold to the Libyan army...
...Dukakis, for example. The governor talks about the Massachusetts Miracle, his supporters chant "Duke, Duke, Duke," pundits mention the Greek heritage of passion that lurks--somewhere, maybe--in him. But none of this disguises the fact that Dukakis' image is BORING, that he is thought to be the ultimate technocrat, or that his speaking style is often wooden...
THEY can try to ridicule the Democratic nominee. But personal attacks on Dukakis could backfire. It's all right to mock Bush's rich ubringing, but political suicide to knock Dukakis' "son of Greek immigrants" appeal. Dukakis is a harder target for Republican barbs...
Dukakis ended his campaign in this year's California primary, simultaneously defeating and flattering Jesse Jackson, boasting that only in America -- and only in the Democratic Party -- could the party's two finalists for President be the son of poor Greek immigrants and the son of a poor black family in South Carolina. Jackson's aide, Bob Borosage, said wryly when he heard this: "Yeah, only in America can the son of a Brookline doctor from Harvard's medical school, who left his family million-dollar trusts, end up with the illegitimate son of a black woman in South Carolina...
...money matters, Dukakis likes to remember the way his father always urged on him "Oikonomia! Oikonomia!" That applies to more than the price of a non- Filene's suit. The Greek ideal of oikonomia (literally, house management) is the optimum disposal of one's resources. Bush's claim that Dukakis has fetched his politics from some liberal boutique in Harvard could not be further from the truth. He was never susceptible to fads. He does not shop boutiques, but bargain basements, wanting the same old things at a better price...