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After 10 months of hearings, more than 100 witnesses and 50,000 pages of documents, the epic trial of former socialist Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou in the $210 million Bank of Crete scandal came to an end last week. The colossal tangle helped topple his flamboyant eight-year rule in 1989, but the court acquitted...
...Rashid on Sudanese soil? Officials decided instead to keep a close eye on the Palestinian bomber and hope he traveled to a country where he could be arrested. In early May 1988, the CIA learned that he was planning to go to Greece. Not the perfect spot, given the Papandreou government's sympathy for the P.L.O., but it would do. Fearing that the Greeks would be reluctant to take legal action against Rashid, the American embassy told them only that a man carrying a fake Syrian passport would be landing at Athens airport on May 30. "The Greeks were happy...
...vowing to hand suspected terrorist Mohammed Rashid over to the U.S. to stand trial for the 1982 midflight bombing of a Pan Am jet near Hawaii. The U.S. has been trying to get hold of Rashid ever since he was arrested in Greece, but the unfriendly government of Andreas Papandreou always said no. However, Mitsotakis' gift may come with a condition attached: the return to Greece of accused embezzler George Koskotas, now in a Massachusetts prison. Koskotas would then be available to testify if Papandreou is brought to trial for corruption...
...uncomfortable partnership was made possible after Socialist leader Andreas Papandreou finally dropped his demand for electoral reforms that would have benefited the leftists. The former Prime Minister, 70, who has been charged with bribe taking and breach of faith, will have no formal position in the new government...
Ousted from office last June in an election dominated by corruption charges, Papandreou still heads Greece's Socialist Party. Following last week's decision on Papandreou, the coalition government of the conservative New Democracy Party and the Alliance of the Left decided to dissolve Parliament this week and hold new elections on Nov. 5. Papandreou has vowed to seek re- election to his seat...