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Caramanlis has been under pressure to deal more firmly with former members of the dictatorship. After the investigations, Papadopoulos is expected to be transferred to a mainland prison, probably before Nov. 17-the anniversary of last year's massacre and the date Greeks will vote for deputies to the 300-seat Parliament that the exiled colonel closed when he came to power. One of the candidates is Alexandros Panagoulis, 33, who was arrested in 1968 for trying to blow up Papadopoulos...
Full Marriage. For passengers, the agreement will mean fewer and more crowded flights to cities outside the mainland U.S., though traffic is not heavy enough to produce any actual shortage of seats. TWA will discontinue its flights to Germany, leaving Pan Am the only U.S. carrier serving that country; Pan Am in return will surrender all but one of its flights to France, Portugal, Spain and Morocco. Both carriers will trim their U.S.-to-London schedules. Pam Am will get most of TWA's transpacific routes to such places as Bangkok, Guam and Bombay, but will turn over...
...extent of their duties also varies widely. In Hong Kong and Taiwan, the CIA operatives are all ears but no hands, their activities confined to monitoring radio broadcasts from the mainland, interviewing refugees and other information gathering...
Thus, in the iambics of his Ulysses, Alfred Lord Tennyson voiced the anomie that propelled the ancient Greeks to embark on fragile craft in search of islands where life, far from the mainland tensions of politics and war, would be eternally serene. That urge-or illusion -has never been stronger than it is today in the U.S. and Canada, where with aircraft, power boats and well-laden wallets, romantics and hard-nosed investors alike can seek modern Happy Isles remote from the purgatory of urban-suburban life...
MARTHA'S VINEYARD is, above all, an island, and to the 8000 small-town folk who live there year round, it is The Island. Seven miles of open sea separate the scenic mass of rubble deposited by Ice Age glaciers from the mainland and its ravages--a distance too short to protect against commercialism, but long enough so that many might think the Island is miraculously immune. The Vineyard stands on its own, it seems, and the assured independence most Islanders assert was reflected in a famous headline a few years ago, when poor weather scuttled the regular ferry sailings...