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...wants change to continue. There has been individual emancipation but not institutional change. The educational system, banks, the church have lagged behind." Actress Melina Mercouri, who is running for reelection on the PASOK ticket from the same Piraeus district in which she never worked on Sunday, points toward the harbor from her penthouse in Athens' posh Kolonaki district. "Can you imagine that almost within sight of us there are thousands of people living without running water, without proper sewage, with very little medical care?" she asks...
...representatives chosen in good faith by the students, because of seemingly honorable characteristics, privately harbor these same prejudices and are likely to advocate these prejudices in force in council decisions...
...ship was built by European settlers in the New World, the Iron Works constructed steamers, tugs, trawlers, J.P. Morgan's famous yacht (the one no one could afford if he had to ask how much it cost) and destroyers for the Navy in both world wars. From Pearl Harbor to V-J day, BIW turned out 82 destroyers, vs. 63 for Japan's entire shipbuilding industry. Only eight vessels were lost in combat, and among Navy men "Bath-built" came to mean lucky as well as seaworthy...
...townsfolk of Annapolis, Md., it was a modest way of commemorating a neglected event in the nation's history. The black community raised nearly $1,000 for a simple, 75-lb. bronze plaque that read in part: "Commemorating the arrival in this harbor of Kunta Kinte, immortalized by Alex Haley in Roots, and all others who came to these shores in bondage." Two mornings after last week's installation ceremonies (attended by Haley), someone sheared the six bolts anchoring the plaque and made off with it. Left in its place was a small card with the inscription...
...Defense Department spokesman replied that every one of Weinberger's stays in Bar Harbor, Me., in June, July and August, was a working vacation. On two instances cited by spokesman Navy Lt. Cmdr. Mark Brender, Weinberger dropped in to participate in informal "executive seminars" sponsored by the Kennedy School of Government...