Word: macedonia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nobody was looking. Premier Nicholas Plastiras was touring Macedonia. Vice Premier George Papandreou and Economic Coordination Minister Emmanuel Tsouderos were in Washington for economic negotiations. The new U.S. ambassador, John E. Peurifoy, had not yet arrived in Athens. To Sophocles Venizelos, one of Greece's more ambitious politicos, it looked like the perfect moment to make a grab for power...
...country's administration is flabby and corrupt; despite ECAid, its economy is semi-paralyzed by public distrust. Recently, when a Greek businessman sought ECA backing for a gold-mining project in Macedonia, an ECA official snapped: "The best place to dig for gold in Greece is in people's mattresses." The imprint of war still remains heavy on the land-and even on the language. A Greek washerwoman, bent over her heaped sink, will say: "Polemo tin bougada" (I am making war on the laundry). A truck driver sprawling underneath his truck will say: "Polemo tin mechani...