Word: papandreou
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...justification for their action. During his brief active reign (1964-67) Constantine displayed the royal penchant for political highhandedness that has troubled Greece for much of its modern history. To resolve a dispute over control of the army in 1965, for instance, he simply dismissed liberal Prime Minister George Papandreou from office, even though Papandreou had won a landslide election victory the previous year. None of the five caretaker Cabinets that Constantine then appointed proved capable of resolving the political chaos that followed Papandreou's ouster-a situation that eventually led to the 1967 military coup...
...Andreas Papandreou Athens The writer leads the Panhellenic Socialist Movement, which was defeated in the recent election...
...first time in nearly three decades that the Communists had been allowed to campaign legally, but they emerged as considerably less than a threat, gaining only 9% of the vote and eight seats. Papandreou's Pasok party, for one thing, drew votes away from the Communists, who attacked him as an "American stooge." At least 500,000 Communists did not vote because they had not registered last March when the junta was still in power-and registering then meant seeing the police...
...next afternoon two minor earthquakes hit Athens-strong enough to make windows rattle, tables and chairs tremble. A fitting prelude to Andreas Papandreou's appearance in Syntagma Square? Perhaps. For the former Berkeley and Harvard economics professor, leader of the new Panhellenic Socialist Movement (Pasok), had brought an unsettling element to the campaign. Barnstorming the country in a black leather jacket, followed by hordes of young people in jeans and faded army field jackets, he brought a new style of campaigning to Greece and emerged as a political messiah of the young...
When he appeared in the square, wearing a bright red shirt, the crowd of 150,000 greeted him with a thunderous explosion of cheers and firecrackers. "Our country should be reconstructed so that it may belong to all Greeks," Papandreou began. He went on to promise that if elected, he would rid Greece of all American bases, pull Athens out of NATO's political councils, provide free medical care for all, ensure equal rights for women and bring about a measure of economic socialism. The crowd marched out chanting, "Tonight the right is dying." Watching the huge rally...