Word: salonika
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...killed George Polk, and why? In the five months since the body of the CBS correspondent was found in Salonika Bay, thousands of Greek police and dozens of volunteer sleuths from the U.S. had tried to find out. They had plenty of theories, but only one substantial clue: the handwriting on the envelope in which Folk's identity card was returned to the police (TIME, July 5). This week, the clue paid...
...press conference in Salonika, timed to coincide with Secretary Marshall's visit to Greece (see INTERNATIONAL), Minister of Justice George Melas told 200 newsmen that the case was practically solved; three men and a woman had been charged with conspiracy...
George Polk's body was found floating in Salonika Bay on May 16. The corpse was bound with 30 feet of rope and had a bullet wound in the base of the skull. While serving as a Columbia Broadcasting System correspondent in Greece, Polk had been an outspoken critic of the Greek Royalist government...
...corpse of the CBS correspondent, an outspoken opponent of the Greek Loyalist government, was found floating in the Gulf of Salonika on May 16, just a few days before he was to have returned home to accept a Nieman fellowship at Harvard. His hands and feet were bound and there was a bullet hole in the back of his head...
...later, Polk was shot point-blank from behind with a long-barreled gun, then tied up with 30 feet of rope. Probable scene of the crime: one of the countless coastwise vessels with which the harbor swarms. (To shoot Polk first and then drag his bleeding, trussed body through Salonika's streets could hardly have escaped notice; to lure him to a caique, and then shoot him in a below-deck cabin, would have been simpler and safer...