Newsgroups: bit.listserv.hellas
Date:         Wed, 11 Nov 1992 00:36:00 PST
Reply-To:     Russ Linos <cvadsbfa@CSUPOMONA.EDU>
From:         Russ Linos <cvadsbfa@CSUPOMONA.EDU>
Subject:      NEA 11/10/92
Comments: To: hellas <hellas@uga.bitnet>

NEW YORK (NOV. 10) UPI -
                       U.S.Dollar       currency
                       Equivalent    per U.S.Dollar
                       Tue     Mon    Tue     Mon
  Belgium franc-c     .0305   .0306   32.77   32.67
  Britain pound      1.5130  1.5140   .6609   .6605
  Denmark krne        .1631   .1633  6.1297  6.1220
  France franc        .1852   .1852  5.3985  5.4010
  Greece drach      .004831 .004853  207.00  206.05
  Hollnd guildr       .5562   .5559  1.7980  1.7988
  Ireland punt       1.6612  1.6736  0.5975  0.5975
  Italy lira        .000734 .000731 1361.75 1367.50
  Portugl escud     .007042 .007060  142.00  141.65
  Spain peseta      .008715 .008773  114.75  113.98
  Turkey lira       .000126 .000126 7931.03 7931.03
  Germany mark        .6260   .6254  1.5975  1.5990

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RTw  11/10 1346  GREEK MILLIONAIRE BUYS KING'S YACHT
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    ATHENS, Nov 10, Reuter - A rags-to-riches Greek, who started out selling
lottery tickets, bought former King Constantine's luxury yacht for 40 million
drachmas ($200,000) at an auction, the state news agency ANA said on Tuesday.
    ANA said Dimitris Nikolouzos, 42, was the highest bidder among seven
contenders for the 30-metre (98-ft) yacht "Theseus," put on auction by the navy
general staff.
    The yacht, in need of repair, has been kept by the navy since the monarchy
was abolished in a referendum in December 1974. The former king lives with his
family in Britain.
    Nikolouzos rose from selling lottery tickets and razor blades in Athens to
running his own excursion business among Greece's Ionian islands. He is now a
millionaire.
    ANA quoted Nikolouzos as saying he would invite the former king to launch
the yacht after it was refitted and to sail on the first cruise to the islands.
The king has been in Greece only once, for just a few hours, since losing his
throne.
    The mahogany-panelled yacht was built in Amsterdam in 1961.
 REUTER SRW EM

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RTw 11/10 0636 AMNESTY ACCUSES TURKEY OF FAILING TO TACKLE ...
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AMNESTY ACCUSES TURKEY OF FAILING TO TACKLE RIGHTS ABUSES
 (Eds: Release at 0001 GMT Nov 11)
    LONDON, Nov 11, Reuter - The Turkish government has failed to fulfil pledges
to improve human rights and political killings and torture in Turkey continue
unabated, Amnesty International said on Wednesday.
    "It is time for the Turkish government to face up to its responsibilities
under international law and bring perpetrators of human rights violations to
justice," the London-based human rights organisation said in a report.
    Amnesty said political killings were reported "virtually daily" and security
forces appeared to be implicated in many of them.
    At least 100 unarmed civilians in southeast Turkey had been killed this year
by security forces shooting at peaceful demonstrators or randomly firing on
residential areas in retaliation for attacks by rebels in the Kurdistan Workers
Party (PKK), Amnesty said.
    It condemned rights abuses, including "executions" of prisoners and the
killing of unarmed civilians by the PKK and other opposition groups but said
this could never justify the violation of human rights by the Turkish
government.
    "There has been too much talk and too little action on the part of the
Turkish authorities," the Amnesty report said.
    The pattern of killings had changed in the past 12 months, it said, with
more than 100 Kurdish men -- journalists, local politicians and others -- shot
dead in "mysterious murders."
    Many of the victims had previously been threatened, detained or tortured by
the police and there was growing evidence to suggest that security forces
colluded in such killings and may instigate them, the organisation said.
    Detainees had told Amnesty they were severely beaten and subjected to
electric shocks and various forms of sexual assault.
    They said that victims and their relatives who tried to take legal action
against torturers had been threatened by police.
    "Despite repeated appeals by Amnesty International for the establishment of
commissions of inquiry, the government has failed to initiate any form of public
inquiry into the killings," Amnesty said.


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