Word: papandreou
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...George Papandreou, who has headed Greece's Ministry of Foreign affairs since March, has also served as a member of Parliament and as minister of education...
Globalization is key to the Balkan region, Papandreou said, as well as to Greek security in particular...
...with Western leaders seeking to negotiate their way out of the Kosovo stalemate. German defense minister Rudolf Scharping discussed Kosovo with top Russian officials Wednesday, following U.S. envoy Strobe Talbott's Tuesday talks with Russia's foreign minister Igor Ivanov and Kosovo envoy Viktor Chernomyrdin. Greek foreign minister Georgios Papandreou and U.N. secretary general Kofi Annan were due to arrive for talks later in the day, while Canadian foreign minister Lloyd Axworthy was due to join the diplomatic party on Thursday...
...late Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou married Dimitra, above, an Olympic Airways hostess...
DIED. ANDREAS PAPANDREOU, 77, the first Socialist Prime Minister of Greece; in Athens. He was democrat and demagogue, a man whose doctrinaire ideology and fist-in-the-air oratory could just as often inflame an audience as inform it. Once a U.S. citizen, he parlayed a virulent anti-Americanism to power, delayed only by a military coup that imprisoned, then exiled him. He became Prime Minister in 1984 and, except for a hiatus caused by financial scandal, and despite resigning in January due to illness, was the central political figure of Greece until his death...