Word: macedonia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back in Athens Zachariades resumed leadership of the Communist Party. For a couple of years he organized political support for Communist guerrillas in Macedonia, notwithstanding Stalin's promise to Churchill in 1944 that Greece would stay a British sphere in return for a British hands-off in the Balkans. With the outbreak of full-scale war between the guerrillas and the Greek army in 1947, Zachariades took to the hills. It was Zachariades' idea to kidnap thousands of peasant children and hold them hostages for the loyalty of their parents. When the U.S.-backed Greek army defeated...
...Macedonia for the Macedonians...
...late election night, Greece's handsome Premier Constantine Karamanlis was tired, unshaven, untalkative. "We're dog tired," said his pretty young (28) wife, leaning against her husband's broad shoulder. For six weeks six-footer Karamanlis had tramped and traveled from snow-choked passes in Macedonia to sun-washed villages in the Peloponnesus to defend his pro-Western policy against the coalition formed against him by three disgruntled ex-Premiers in league with the remnant of the outlawed Communist Party. "I stand alone. I am one against all," he proclaimed defiantly...
Chrysler Corp. announced that it will build near Macedonia, Ohio an $85 million body-stamping plant, with enough capacity to supply all passenger-car divisions with fenders, body panels, deck lids and doors. Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp. will spend $90 million to expand its Ravenswood, W. Va. sheet-and-foil plant, add to other facilities in Maryland, Louisiana and Washington. New Jersey Bell Telephone Co. decided to put out $100 million worth of new securities over the next two years to keep up with the growing population and record construction boom...
...thing, not many of the Greek repatriates actually went home. Most of their villages were destroyed in the war. They are billeted in Epirus and Macedonia, which are two of the poorest regions in a poor country. The repatriates have not enough to eat, and no employment. Under their Communist masters, they were adequately clothed and housed and fed so long as they worked hard and did not rebel. In advanced countries like Czechoslovakia, some had also learned trades which, in northern Greece, they cannot...