In an election year, the theater season always gets off to a slow start and many plays do not open until after the campaign, but by far the best attended premiere of the 1981-82 season was the opening of Parliament on the morning of November 16.
Four Kolonaki ladies, Mimica, Fiifica, Titica and Lilica, met for their customary Sunday afternoon card game a week after the elections.
The celebrations of National Resistance are observed by certain groups all year round, but with the Ohi Day observance held on October 28 and the Polytechnion two weeks later, the Days of Remembrance are most powerfully felt at this time of year.
WHEN a UPI reporter recently broke the news that American School of Classical Studies archeologists in Athens had discovered the famous Poikile Stoa in the ancient Agora, the Greek papers cried ‘foul’ and claimed the Americans had reserved the scoop for their own media instead of first informing the Greek authorities about their find.
Although Andreas Papandreou had been persistently calling for parliamentary elections for well over a year, it was not until September 19 that President Karamanlis decreed elections and dissolved Parliament.
While a host of political parties will officially participate in the forthcoming Greek parliamentary elections, the contest will essentially be fought by three parties: two vying for first place and the privilege of forming the new government and the third trailing behind with the hope of acting as arbiter in case of a deadlock.
In late June it had been noted that there had been surprisingly few forest fires this summer. Shortly after, however, a major fire broke out on the Cassandra finger of the Halkidiki peninsula, followed by others in Macedonia, Crete and Attica.
AMONG the highlights of this vear’s summer spectacles in Athens was a series of performances by the Ice Ballet of Kiev at the Stadium.
When Opposition leader Andreas Papandreou visited President Karamanlis in mid-July requesting that a certain day in October be set for elections, the President decided that he should like to have the consensus of other party leaders on this matter, and that these proposals be submitted in writing. If everything else changes in the preelection period, the bureaucratic method remains triumphantly the same.
THE Minister of Communications made an announcement the other day to the effect that construction would finally begin on the projected Athens Subway system with the digging of two test tunnels, one at the junction of Vassilissis Olgas and Amalias Avenues and another at Sepolia.
