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A blustery north wind was churning "Surfs Up" waves against the north shore of this Mediterranean island The hotel cabana was empty Fifty tables and maybe 200 chairs All empty A scene from Fellini I remembered May eight years earlier when boisterous British Irish and German vacationers were gathered around these same tables and when the hotel Kati Alli (Something else) had been the only hotel on a vast stretch of beach and when the air was balmy and sweet with the smell of Spring On this May day after a stopover in London and just as north Europe was about to enjoy one of the balmiest and sunniest springs in more than a century we landed in Athens in a squall I was not to feel a hedonistic sensation for the next three weeks For I remained in full winter attire even on the beach and wore my thermal underwear to bed each night On Crete 200 miles north of Africa I began to wonder if I were not on holiday in the Baltic instead of the Aegean Our once isolated hotel was now one of a line of taverns restaurants and hotels accessible from a crowded street that no longer brooked casual strolling or bicycling On my first visit I had biked and that road between Xania and the hotel without fear Now driving the same route was like making passage single-ca- r gathrough a on side either walled by hotel tarage verna restaurant hotel hotel hotel boutique restaurant taverna boutique taverna restaurant I had remembered Elios with the face of a sybarite and textured voice of Jean Paul Belmondo But Elios which means "Sunny" was not sunny this May He was in a foul mood He smoked cigarette after cigarette surveying the empty tables in his cabana and scowling at the new restaurants taverns and hotels flanking him on this once isolated beach front From early morning until late evening he and his staff stood by anxiously awaiting a single guest Elios could see thousands of drachmas going from him to the bank but nary a dollar a pound or Deutschmark buying his hospitality food or spirits I sipped a Metaxa to ward off the cold and depression and so that my fingers could write a letter A flea floundered g - - 4 i A-- - - - - ' - te"-efr- ' - ! 1 7 - ' ' z" 10141"' - -- two-wee- -- bone-chillin- edaily during the "White Nights" of summer when the sun barely sets ODD Denver Airport Denver International Airport set to open in December will encompass 53 square miles Estimated cost of the new airport is $3 billion User fees are expected to cover operating costs and the debt service on the bonds As the nation's sixth busiest Denver Stapleton had reached capacity was too busy and too close to the city Adverse weather conditions were a maproblem at Stapleton DIA jor is expected to be wife'4for sky-hig- h ar debris-strew- - See Column H-- 3 1 - - ' - it ' ' L''''' 71- it - Is:i - ' - ' t sor:tlr - ' A- 4 - 'ik- -' ''- ' :rt - t "?' 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