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About the time that Soudan was opening his shipping firm, a man calling himself Bert Stem-fortyish, with gray hair and a vaguely Germanic accent-appeared in Piraeus, Greece, to hire a crew capable of working a supertanker. The load was to be 194,000 tons of Kuwaiti oil, to be delivered in Genoa to an independent Italian oil company, Pontoil. On Nov. 30, the ship-Soudan's Salem-sailed for Kuwait and picked up the crude. After four days at sea, however, the cargo was sold to Shell in a normal spot-market transaction. Shell kept Genoa...
Many of these crimes were apparently engineered by a small band of Greek and Lebanese merchant shippers operating from Piraeus and other Mediterranean ports. But the sinking of the Salem may have set a new precedent. Explains Eric Ellen, chief constable of the Port of London: "The Salem is the first such incident involving oil, but we knew it would happen because of the attractiveness of the cargo. It takes an event like the Salem to make people realize how horrific this problem has become...
...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...