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...Washington wanted to make too much of the issue, but Greece's sudden cancellation of Zeus, a small joint maneuver with American forces in the northern part of the country, exasperated U.S. officials. The scrapping of Zeus came just as the U.S. and Socialist Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou, after months of feuding, appeared to be mending their differences...
...from Greek Communists, who are uneasy over the improving relations with the U.S. But because Athens still intends to join in a much larger NATO exercise in October, Greek and foreign observers were prepared to dismiss the sudden demise of Zeus as little more than a sacrificial act by Papandreou to placate the extreme left...
...unassuming, English-speaking son was serving as assistant to Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko at the Stockholm conference on European security. His new assignment, which needs formal Greek approval, may be considerably more important to the Kremlin. Although Greece is a NATO member, the government of Socialist Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou has opposed the alliance's deployment of intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Western Europe. Greece recently provoked Washington's ire by describing the U.S. as "the expansionist metropolis of imperialism." Papandreou has also asserted that the Soviet Union is incapable of imperialism because of the nature...
...Administration in the past had muted its criticism of the Greek government, in part because it wanted Papandreou to honor a defense agreement that went into effect late last year. The pact allows the U.S. to continue maintaining strategic military bases in Greece until at least 1988, although the functioning of the bases has in recent days been hampered by striking Greek workers. Moreover, U.S. Ambassador to Greece Monteagle Stearns, a personal friend of the Prime Minister's, had offered some sound advice: "Don't look at what Papandreou is saying but at what he is doing...
...Washington tempers flared in May after Papandreou, a former Econom- ics Professor at the University of California at Berkeley, called the U.S. "the expansionist metropolis of imperialism." He also asserted that the Soviet Union is incapable of imperialism because of the nature of its economic system. The remarks came on top of Greece's continuing opposition to the deployment of new NATO missiles in Western Europe, as well as Papandreou's refusal to condemn Soviet behavior in Afghanistan and Poland...