Word: papandreou
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...classical Greece the elected magistrates of Athens, called Archons, held secret ballots to banish leaders when they were accused of serious transgressions. Last week a similar process began in the Greek parliament after two government commissions recommended that criminal charges be brought against former Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou. The panels accused Papandreou of complicity in the Bank of Crete scandal and of ordering illegal wiretaps. Parliament is expected to refer the charges to a special criminal court...
...some $210 million, and then distributed much of the money to high-ranking members of the Socialist Party (PASOK), including the Prime Minister. The commission said it found enough corroboration of Koskotas' charges, which he first made publicly in exclusive interviews with TIME last March,* to recommend prosecution of Papandreou for bribe taking and receiving stolen money...
Vyron Polydoras, the secretary of the commission investigating the Koskotas charges, told TIME that while the case is not open and shut, "events point to Papandreou." The PASOK members on the commission had a different assessment. They issued a minority report saying the evidence was insufficient and "fabricated." Papandreou denounced the charges as a "settling of personal and political accounts" by the conservative-leftist coalition government that took office in July...
...groom wore black and white and looked pale. His bride was glowing in a pristine white gown, even though it was the third time around for both of ! them. After a public affair that helped bring about his defeat in last month's elections, former Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou, 70, and Dimitra Liani, 35, were married last week in Athens. "This is the happiest day of my life," he gushed...
They planned to honeymoon on the island of Cephalonia, where Papandreou could recuperate from pneumonia. But he remained in Athens this week as the new, conservative-led government began investigation of financial scandals in the administration he headed for eight years...