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...Papandreou changes his mind on U.S. bases
Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou called it "a historic day for Greece." Flanked by his entire Cabinet, he announced last week that his government had just initialed a new agreement allowing the U.S. to keep four major military bases and 20 smaller installations in Greece for another five years. The accord, which climaxed nine months of difficult negotiations, signaled a change of attitude for Papandreou, who campaigned in 1981 on a pledge to close down the bases and pull Greece out of NATO...
...election of the first Socialist Prime Minister in Spain since 1936 appeared to be part of a trend confined to Southern Europe, where voters have grown disillusioned with decades of ineffective center-right governments. France's President François Mitterrand and Greece's Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou swept to power last year on a wave of popular enthusiasm for promises of change, and Felipe González has now joined that socialist surge. Even in Italy, where centrist Prime Minister Giovanni Spadolini still leads a shaky five-party coalition, the Socialists under Bettino Craxi have made steady...
...defenders of jobs. "It is not so much that they have been able to claim they will create more jobs," says Pasquino, "but they can promise not to adopt policies that will lead to greater unemployment." Big expectations, however, can become a political liability, as Mitterrand has learned, as Papandreou is learning, and as González may discover...
...jobless has continued to grow. After an ill-advised attempt to spur the economy through consumer spending, the French Socialists turned to unpopular wage and price controls to stem inflation. As controls were lifted last week, subway, railroad and airline workers promptly began striking for higher wages. In Greece, Papandreou's more moderate brand of socialism has fared better. In nationwide municipal elections late last month, the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) won control over more than half of the nation's 276 cities and nearly 6,000 smaller communities. But the election also revealed some dissatisfaction with...