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...open romance with a younger woman has already earned him a national tongue-lashing, but there seems to be no end to the abuse Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou is willing to suffer in the name of love. While in London awaiting open-heart surgery, Papandreou, 69, announced last week that he would seek a divorce from Margaret, his American-born wife of 37 years, when he returns to Athens. In Britain the Greek leader has been photographed holding hands with Olympic Airways Flight Attendant Dimitra Liani...
Although Turkey's Prime Minister Turgut Ozal, 61, has led his nation to a new level of economic and social advancement during five years of leadership, last week was one that he may want to forget. First, Ozal's historic meeting in Greece with Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou to settle differences between their nations ended in an affable but thorough stalemate. Back home in Ankara, while Ozal was addressing a rally of his center-right Motherland Party, a man in the crowd opened fire with a gun, wounding the Prime Minister in the thumb...
...Davos is an unlikely setting for any kind of thaw, much less one in relations between such bitter adversaries as Greece and Turkey. But a new era of Aegean neighborliness may be under way following secretly arranged meetings in the Swiss resort last month between Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou and Turkish Prime Minister Turgut Ozal. The leaders established two committees, one to foster ties in trade, tourism, banking, communications and culture, another to study perennial disagreements over air space and Aegean seabed and water rights...
Detente first bloomed after Papandreou sent a conciliatory message to Ozal. That led to two days of meetings during a World Economic Forum gathering in Davos. Papandreou and Ozal agreed to hold annual summits and set up an Ankara- Athens hotline to avoid misunderstandings...
...Papandreou's interest in Liani has been an open secret in Greek social circles. But scandal surfaced after he failed to attend Sept. 13 commemoration ceremonies for last year's earthquake in the southern town of Kalamata. Within days press reports claimed that Papandreou had spent that weekend on a yacht , in the Aegean with Liani. Three weeks ago, the first picture of Papandreou and Liani as a couple appeared on the cover of the normally progovernment monthly Eikones. As tongues wag louder, the Prime Minister is maintaining a stony silence about the affair...