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ATHENS: Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou resigend his post Monday after two months in the hospital for pneumonia and heart trouble, each day of which created new speculation that he was near death. Under its constitution, the ruling socialist party now has three days to elect a new premier. The top contenders for his post are two economists, Defense Minister Gerasimos Arsenis and former Industry Minister Costas Simitis. The 76-year-old Papandreou, who has been on and off life support, reportedly signed the resignation from his hospital bed in Athens. He did not quit as head of the party...
HOSPITALIZED. ANDREAS PAPANDREOU, 76, Prime Minister of Greece; with kidney and lung failure and pneumonia; in Athens. At week's end Papandreou was in stable condition, but required the use of life support...
Members of the Harvard Greek community closely watched this week's national elections in Greece, in which Andreas Papandreou, the former Prime Minister of Greece and leader of the Pan-Hellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK), regained his seat in a victory over Constantine Mitsotakis and the New Democracy Party...
...acquittal left Greeks little closer to the truth. But it did pump up the political jousting. After the verdict, Papandreou called for new elections to unseat the New Democracy government's small parliamentary majority...
...special tribunal concluded that prosecutors had not proved their case. They had charged that Papandreou ordered state companies to deposit funds in the private bank at a time when its owner was suspected of embezzlement. Papandreou was also accused of taking bribes from the bank owner...