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Greeks in Germany

Driving along the autobahn from Stuttgart to Munich, I pass a heavily-laden truck making its way up a steep incline. Painted on its sides in bold white letters is the name of the firm, SARANTOS HELLAS, and in smaller letters the message, Umwelt-freundliche Reinigungs – und Pflegemittel. Waibiingen – which roughly translated means: ‘Cleaning materials friendly to the environment’. Waibiingen, its place of registration, is a small town near Stuttgart. The juxtaposition of the Greek name and the message in German brings to mind the subject of much discussion in recent years about Greeks in Germany.

By Margot Granitsas / November 1, 1977

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Hope for the Mediterranean

Βy the year 1985, tourists may well outnumber the fish in the Mediterranean, according to

By Antoinette Moses / November 1, 1977

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The Corfu Incident

Italian troops were already crossing the Albanian border when on the morning of October 28, 1940, Italy’s diplomatic representative in Athens delivered his government’s ultimatum that Greece capitulate. The Greek nation’s rejection of Mussolini’s ultimatum, an occasion annually observed on October 28 as a national holiday, did not find the country unprepared. It had been preceded by several provocative acts which forewarned the Greek government and eventually led, less than two decades later, to the Italian invasion of Greece. The first of these provocations was the 1923 bombardment and occupation of Corfu, an incident crucial not only to Greece but to world history, as it was the first test case of its type for the League of Nations.

By Brenda Marder / October 1, 1977

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Journeys in the Sudan

Five hundred miles southwest of Khartoum the savannah of the Sudan is interrupted by the Nuba Mountains, a scattered collection of inselbergs which rise, rock bound, to relieve the tedium of the acacia-covered plain. Kadugli, lying at the bottleneck of two great ranges is small, partly squalid, partly beautiful, and shaded by spreading trees (a welcome remnant of the colonial empire).

By Don Paul / October 1, 1977

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The U.N. Presence in Greece

Since its founding on June 26, 1945 with forty-six participating nations, the United Nations has grown to include a total of one hundred and forty-eight countries. For more than thirty years it has initiated and directed countless efforts to reduce poverty, provide health services, improve education, increase world prosperity and mediate political crises. Although hardly a day passes without a reference in the local news to the organization’s activities, many remain vague about the UN’s presence in Greece.

By Katerina Agrafioti / September 1, 1977

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From Here to Delphi

Tourists coming to Greece for the first time often scurry from ruin to ruin lest they miss any.

By Alan Walker / September 1, 1977

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Carmen

It has become something of a habit in the last generation to present Carmen as if it were an opera written in the verismo style -a sort of debased Franco-Spanish spin-off to Cavelleria Rusticana- that is a hot-blooded and sensational tale of Mediterranean lust.

By Sloane Elliott / August 1, 1977

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Old Instruments, Old Songs

The notes of the music he plays have never been transcribed but have survived since ancient times.

By Margot Granitsas / August 1, 1977

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The Agora

Classical Athens saw the rise of an achievement unparalleled in the history of mankind. Pericles, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Plato, Demosthenes, Thucydides and Praxiteles. . . the statesmen and playwrights, historians and artists, philosophers and orators who flourished here during the fourth and fifth centuries B. C. when Athens was the most powerful city-state in Greece, were collectively responsible for sowing the seeds of Western Civilization. When its influence waned, Athens remained a cultural mecca, a centre for the study of philosophy and rhetoric until the sixth century A.D. Throughout antiquity Athens was adorned with great public buildings, financed first by its citizens, and later with gifts from Hellenistic kings and Roman emperors. Nowhere is the history of Athens so richly illustrated as in the Agora, the marketplace which was the focal point of life…

By John Camp / August 1, 1977

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Many-Splendoured Things

Long after the last concertgoers had left the Herod Atticus Theatre, a few lonely figures emerged from the vaulted arches and walked out into the chilly night. Zubin Mehta, the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Indian-born conductor, trailed by some close associates, strode down the steps, disregarding a huge, gleaming, black limousine waiting at the foot of the steps, and crossing Dionysiou Areopaghitou, directed his steps towards Filopapos Hill.

By Margot Granitsas / July 1, 1977