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The Daily Gyro
Updated Daily on Greek Time

November 16, 2005

This edition of The Daily Gyro reminds us that Greece isn’t immune from the major stories in the rest of the world, from pressure to withdraw troops from halfway around the world, to student led rioting. On a lighter note, the near future of Greek soccer remains in good hands with a two-year contract extension granted to national team coach Otto Rehhagel.

Here’s the Gyro:

  • If it’s Thursday, then it’s time to riot.
    For those who haven’t noticed, Thursday is November 17th, which used to be the name of a now defunct Greek terrorist organization which took its name from the day of a 1973 student uprising against the military junta which was then in charge of Greece. With the wave of rioting by French youth in France, sympathy rioting against French assets in Greece has already started and police fear that Thursday will be a high-water mark with peaceful protests marking the anniversary already scheduled. Police in Athens already started towing cars around Athens Polytechnic, the site of the 1973 revolt, and over 6500 police officers will be posted along the protest route that always ends at the U.S. Embassy, for accusations that the US backed the junta. Along with the mainstays of Greek demonstrators -- the peaceful ones, and the anarchists -- adding the above mentioned copy cat demonstrators and those who have been recently protesting against Greek involvement in the UN military operations in Afghanistan (where recent attacks on Greek troops have caused some concern) could make Thursday quite hairy in the Greek Capital.  Mixing reasons for protest and protest groups is typically a recipe for disaster.  

 

  • Greece’s plan to privatize struggling Olympic Airlines fell through on Tuesday as the European Union ruled that Olympic benefited from illegal subsidies. With all hopes of privatization in the short term lost, the new plan is to restructure and re-launch the airline under a similar name. It’s gone from Olympic Airways to Olympic Airlines. Here’s a thought. How about scrapping the name “Olympic” for something with a little less of a curse on it? Face it, the Olympics branding probably isn’t what it used to be, with the over-commercialization of the event and all the doping.

 

  • What do the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, Toledo Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and the Princeton University Art Museum have in common? According to Italian authorities, these museums display smuggled antiquities that Italy wants back. The allegedly smuggled items at Princeton are two ancient Greek ceramic vases on display since 1989. Italian authorities are apparently asking for these pieces back under the international doctrine of “We stole it first.”

 



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