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...months after an Irish Republican Army bomb almost claimed the life of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, an I.R.A. splinter group had vowed to try again. Instead, a different kind of assault came from an unexpected source. As the meeting drew to a close, Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou threatened to torpedo its major goal: a painstakingly constructed agreement on the terms under which Spain and Portugal would be able to join the Community. Papandreou announced that unless the Community provided a six-year, $3.75 billion program to assist poor farmers in Mediterranean countries, he would veto any entry plan...
...Papandreou campaigned against Greek participation in NATO and the E.G. when he came to power in 1981, and he has been difficult ever since. Community decisions must be unanimous, and Papandreou has used the veto threat while demanding special benefits for Greece. He borrowed the tactic from Thatcher, who stalled the Community for five years while she insisted that Britain deserved a rebate on its Community budget contributions. In Dublin, Papandreou dragged the summit for five hours beyond its scheduled closing to argue that Greek, French and Italian farmers will need massive financial aid to help them adjust...
...Papandreou based his demands for $3.75 billion on a proposal made earlier this year by the European Commission, the Community's Brussels-based executive body, to set up a six-year program to subsidize poor farmers in Mediterranean countries. But with the E.C. budget already strained, the Community leaders had planned to set aside only $37 million in aid to poor farmers next year. Papandreou resisted all efforts to lower his sights, including a $60 million counteroffer from West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl...
Greece these days seems to be of two minds about the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Though Socialist Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou has questioned Greece's place in the alliance, the country remains a member in good standing. Indeed, a government spokesman said last week that Greece would take part in NATO's surveillance of Eastern Europe by U.S. AW ACS radar planes. Under Secretary of Defense Antonios Drosoyannis called it "one of the most advantageous deals that Greece has gotten out of its alliance with NATO." That was surprising, since Papandreou has often declared that his country faces...
Lest NATO get the wrong impression, Papandreou last week also declared that his government differed "on all points" with the alliance's condemnation of the Soviet downing of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 last year. Though Papandreou did not condone the Soviets' action, he said, "It is now a fact that [the plane] was carrying out a spying mission for the American...