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Voice broadcasts in 24 languages are carried by 38 short-wave transmitters in the U.S. and 19 relay stations at Woofferton (England), Munich, Tangier, Salonika, Honolulu and Manila. Voice stations are located in some exotic places: the transmitter in Tangier stands on a sultan's former hunting domain, and the slender blue-and-white transmitters near Manila rise elegantly from damp rice paddies. In a twice-daily air assault against Russian jamming, the Voice teams up with some 30 BBC transmitters. Voice broadcasts are also carried by domestic stations in more than 50 countries, including the French government network...
Eager Traveler. With returns incomplete, Plastiras' party was neck-and-neck with Dino Tsaldaris' Populists (Royalists). Sophocles Venizelos' Liberals were next. Sofianopoulos' Democratic Front, which got one-third of the vote in Athens, Piraeus and Salonika, was fourth, and the Social Democrats were fifth. The Social Democrats are resolute antiCommunists, but Sofianopoulos' group believes that it can do business with the Reds. As the returns came in he said cryptically: "My hobby is traveling," meaning that he would like to be Foreign Minister and try out some of his ideas for appeasing Russia...
...Salonika, the most colorful competition was provided by the leader of the Byzantine Party, Michael Angelopoulou, whose symbol is the two-headed eagle. He calls himself Michael I* and claims to be descended from the Byzantine Dynasty, but scorns requests for proof ("let someone contest it if he dares"). He urges all parties to unite with him for restoration of the Byzantine Empire, "of course without quarreling with the Turks, who are good, sweet fellows." Fiery, mustached Emperor Michael is vague about most of his program, but specific on one point: if elected, he wants a carved walnut throne. When...
According to the Chief of Police of Salonika, Gresco, scene of the crime, George Polk "was killed by the Communists to defame Greece in U.S. eyes and end American financial assistance to that nation...
Sponsored by the Newsman's Commission to Investigate the Murder of George Polk, Polk left the United States April 5 for Salonika, Greece, the scene of the CBS correspondent's murder and the subsequent trial...