Word: piraeus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...flower shop, a chocolatier, an international newsstand-tobacconist, six other shops and nine eating places. These include a 24-hour English restaurant, whose waitresses seem to be on loan from Upstairs, Downstairs; a Hungarian rendezvous with an imported gypsy band; a Greek establishment with the salty flavor of Piraeus. Thus at Citicorp it is possible to leave work and, without stepping outside the Center, shop for a book or a new pipe, pick up a bag of custom-blended coffee, cash a check, raise a glass of wine and down a fondue, exchange smiles, go to a play, hear...
...sign. At their old headquarters building in the commercial and student section of Exarheia, youthful, bearded PASOK workers joyfully embraced as they heard the news about notable new Deputies who had won election: Actress Melina Mercouri (Never on Sunday), comfortably elected-to a seat representing the port of Piraeus-after an unsuccessful try in 1974; and Lady Amalia Fleming, widow of penicillin's discoverer, a bacteriologist and a political prisoner under the junta...
...most famous movie, "Never on Sunday" was her credo, but Melina Mercouri is now on the streets seven days a week-campaigning for election to the Greek parliament. In 1974 Actress-Activist Mercouri was defeated as a Socialist candidate from Piraeus, which includes the red-light district in her 1960 film. Back on the hustings again, she is confident of victory this time. Says Mercouri, 52: "They trust me not as a star, but rather as a woman with dynamism who knows how to fight, how to go on strike. I want to be a thorn in parliament...
Free Ports. Driven from Lebanon by civil war, gunrunners are finding Greece's system of free ports ideal for their purposes. For example, goods delivered to the free ports of Salonika or Piraeus for transshipment are placed in sealed warehouses and are not liable to inspection. Some shipments intended for the Palestinians in Lebanon originate in Arab countries. Packed in cases that often identify the contents as fish or an equally harmless commodity, the weapons are shipped in roundabout ways, like from Benghazi to Hamburg to Athens, to avoid interception by Israeli patrol boats. Other weapons come from international...
Last week a harsher reality intruded. Picked up by a torpedo boat, whose commander was one of the hundreds of officers sacked by Papadopoulos, the five were sped to the port of Piraeus. From there they were taken to Korydallos prison and placed behind bars, along with the sixth member of the junta's inner circle, former Brigadier General Dimitrios loannidis. All six await trial on charges of insurrection and high treason. If convicted, they face a maximum penalty of death by firing squad...