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...turn of George, Andreas' eldest son. Papandreou, 57, who was elected Prime Minister last October, has spent most of his first six months in office keeping Greece from bankruptcy and forcing through reforms. In the cavernous, colonnaded rooms of Maximos Mansion, where he met TIME on March 29, the Papandreou legacy seems to hang uneasily on the down-to-earth, softly spoken premier. The Apple laptop on his desk, the Prius in the driveway and the bold modern art next to the leather-bound books are small but telling signs of how he is shaking up the fusty world...
...there, Papandreou knows he will have to take on the culture of entitlement and graft that has festered on the left - and his own party. "The first thing we have to do is change ourselves," he says he told his socialist PASOK party after he took over its leadership...
...also managed to keep his party largely in line. "There is this concept of politics as a dirty game," he says. "It's a difficult game, but it doesn't have to be dirty." Greeks, Papandreou argues, want to deal with the rot eroding their society. "The first thing is to realize [corruption] exists as a problem, and that we've already accomplished," he says. "Already people are saying we do need a change. We do want to have a different state. We do want to fight corruption...
...bumps of the past few months, he remains optimistic about the European project. "I think Europe is in a transition," he says. "I'd say it's gone from being a peace project to being a ... prototype for a globalized society." He would like to lead the way. But first, there's a crisis to deal with...
...Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty of 1972--one of the first major agreements of the Cold War--actually aimed to keep both the Soviet Union and the U.S. vulnerable to nuclear attack by forbidding the development of defensive systems. The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks of the same year, which capped the number of weapons allowed each side, set the balance of destructive power at a fixed level. In 1986, two great dreamers, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, met in Iceland with the aim of total nuclear disarmament. The duo failed, but their talks set the stage for the 1987 Intermediate-Range...