Word: salonika
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Burning Butts. In Athens, the Greek military junta was busily playing oneupmanship with its critics: in order to forestall token strikes threatened for May Day, the junta declared it a public holiday. It also sponsored a workers' rally in Salonika, complete with government-approved signs calling for a 40-hour week and "profits participation...
...when Standard Oil (N.J.) went into partnership with him. The Greek government sought bids for an oil refinery, but Pappas and Esso beat out Aristotle Onassis and 14 other competitors by proposing a package deal that called for construction of a huge industrial complex, including a steel mill, near Salonika. Pappas knew that almost every developing country yearns for a steel mill, and that the offer of it would titillate Greek pride. The deal produced a unique group of four companies, including the refinery, named Esso Pappas. The only man in the world who has his name right next...
...party's newspaper warned of the possibility of a dictatorship, and promised that in such a case "the people will mobilize massively to overthrow the regime." At week's end crowds of pro-Papandreou students chanting "Andreas" and antimonarchist slogans clashed with police in Athens and Salonika...
...Stephanopoulos has made enemies as well as friends. He has so far enacted no social-welfare legislation at all and, in order to economize, slashed the wheat subsidies enacted by Papandreou, enraging the farm vote, which represents 51% of the total. In July, demonstrators protesting the cuts rioted in Salonika. Over 90 police and demonstrators were injured, and 140 demonstrators arrested. If an election was held tomorrow, Papandreou's Center Union would most likely...
Fortnight ago he returned alone. The family soon learned why. From relations in Greece, a letter arrived, telling how Vlachos had lured his daughter-in-law into a Salonika hotel room and raped her. In the poverty-stricken hill towns of Greece, where whole families are sometimes forced to sleep beneath the same blanket, incest and related affairs are not unknown, nor do these proud but ignorant people turn to the law to deal with such delicate matters...