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Powell Cancels Plan to Attend Closing of Athens Olympics

NPR | By Sylvia Poggioli

Published August 29, 2004 at 12:00 AM EDT

Banner hung from a wall at the Acropolis decries the planned visit of Secretary of State Colin Powell.

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Sylvia Poggioli is senior European correspondent for NPR's International Desk covering political, economic, and cultural news in Italy, the Vatican, Western Europe, and the Balkans. Poggioli's on-air reporting and analysis have encompassed the fall of communism in Eastern Europe, the turbulent civil war in the former Yugoslavia, and how immigration has transformed European societies.

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