Verse
Mysko, Madeleine
peat themselves in conversation after conversation, from the old men in the Cafenion to the young women in the park, "peace and quiet," "stability" and "now Greece needs strength, maybe next time...
...The bus to Ardmore Labors up the street...
...And university administrations can expect hard days ahead...
...Squirrels scratch Down the elms...
...The low quality of deputies is particularly unfortunate now since this Parliament will revise the Constitution...
...And you lie sleeping in the gutter...
...20 December 1974:258...
...Karamanlis is a friend but he is a strong and independent character...
...Papandreou saw that Greeks felt humiliated and betrayed by America and took that to mean that they wanted to be rid of it...
...for support on the Cyprus issue and it is fully expected that the leases will be renegotiated...
...And in recent university elections the left achieved a huge majority...
...I'm no Odysseus either...
...Sleep on, Boy...
...More of this strength should be seen in terms of the vote next time around since all parties support lowering the voting age to 18...
...So this time it is Karamanlis...
...COKIE ROBERTS ( Cokie Roberts, a previous contributor, is an American newspaper and radio journalist living in Athens...
...The parties that didn't have time to organize well before elections will have time now...
...Grey and ragged, you hug a scrap of sunlight To your bones...
...Ah, you were never so noble, old mongrel Dog...
...peat themselves in conversation after conversation, from the old men in the Cafenion to the young women in the park, "peace and quiet," "stability" and "now Greece needs strength, maybe next time Papandreou, but this time we need Karamanlis...
...The lid has been clamped on the pot of social change for seven years and now the demands are likely to come boiling out: equal rights for women-including changes in the Constitution and laws---reorganization of the labor unions, demands for higher wages, reform of the Church, standardization of the language...
...So he will make it clear to his friends that he is their equal, not their client, and the relationship must change...
...He is quite willing to use the American bases here as a lever on the U.S...
...And leftists are saying they have a base to build on...
...He will have such an overwhelming majority in Parliament (221 out of 300 seats) that it will be hard for the other voices to be heard inside the system...
...Although Karamanlis specifically rejected it this time...
...Your nose was trained to trash cans and neighborhood cats...
...After the fox...
...So one hears now much talk, as you did after the defeats of McCarthy and McGovern, that the youth might "take to the streets," force confrontation with the police and invite repressive measures...
...People in the U.S...
...Children whiz by on bicycles In a yellow storm of leaves...
...But Karamanlis understands that all Greeks really want is to be treated with dignity by this powerful state whose protection and money they still feel they need...
...What am I to make of you, old Dog...
...New political alignments are likely to result...
...No reason why you should lift your muzzle for me...
...No age breakdowns are available but it is generally assumed that the bulk of Papandreou's support came from the youth...
...A New Democracy Parliament might not be the best one to deal with these questions...
...Running in dream fields, are you...
...Embassy here aren't so sure...
...In Greek elections ticket-splitting is forbidden and when the people voted for Karamanlis they had to take his party in the package...
...Many people fear that Karamanlis' mandate for stability could bring about the opposite...
...But Karamanlis will be careful not to lose America's friendship, and here too he has sensed the mood of his people...
...The Americans are beginning to say that the bases aren't all that crucial after all, which is somewhat disheartening to hear after they served as the justification for support of the military regime...
...The election doesn't mean that Greece has taken a dramatic shift to the right, even though it was a setback for the left...
...Leaves fall and you blink them away...
...On election night a somewhat besotted Russian correspondent called it a "victory for America...
...0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 MADELEINE MYSKO ARGOS Poents aren't made of the likes of you, old Dog, And yet I strap you on, along with a dozen Other things bumping against my mind All the way down the hill to the post office And back...
...Some Karamanlis advisers admit that second-rate candidates came in the landslide, pushing out superior members of the Center...
Vol. 101 • December 1974 • No. 10
