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Like any blueprint for government, the viability of the new Greek constitution will depend heavily on those who enforce it. In that regard, Athens Publisher Helen Vlachos, who returned last year from a self-imposed exile during the colonels' dictatorship to revive her prestigious daily Kathimerini, is confident that it will work. Says Vlachos: "I know the people who drafted it. They are responsible, intelligent, dedicated Greeks. I trust them. Therefore I trust...
...Sulzberger, disguised as a distinguished journalist, tries to conceal his identity as an international provocateur." And even the conservative daily Kathimerini suggested that the King should refrain from talking to" foreign journalists. Sulzberger, however, was not fazed: "I'm never really too surprised at anything that happens in Greece," he said. "They are an imaginative people and take their politics seriously...
...tradition that nobody listens to the opinions of a woman, everybody listens to Helen. One of Greece's most important publishers, the 54-year-old iconoclast puts out the nation's second-largest and best newspaper, Messimvrini (circ. 90,000), and the fifth-largest Kathimerini (56,000). She also publishes Greece's biggest picture magazine, Eikones, as well as a vast number of paperback books...
Ruined Mothers. Helen Vlachos was born to the business. Her father, George, founded Kathimerini, which she joined at the age of 16. "People say it is not easier if your father is the boss," she says bluntly. "That's not true. It is easier." She attended the Berlin Olympics of 1936, interviewed Mussolini in Libya, covered "all the earthquakes in Greece." She worked as a nurse during World War II when the Nazis took over the paper; after the war, she started her column, which soon became one of the most popular in Greece. A conservative who likes...
When her father died in 1951, Helen Vlachos took over Kathimerini. Her employees, who regarded her as still a child, resisted innovations. So in 1961 she started Messimvrini, a paper in which she could "have her own way. She had the temerity to take the news off the last page, where it is customarily placed in Greek journalism, and spread it throughout the paper. She also brightened makeup and introduced Western-style leads. "All my staff were sure they'd be ruined," she recalls, "that my poor mother would be ruined, that their mothers would be ruined." But "Greeks...