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...several days that he had already left Lebanon, P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat sailed Monday for Greece. In an emotional farewell, he told a crowd of well-wishers, "I am leaving this city, but my heart will always be in Beirut." Arafat was warmly greeted by Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou, whose government has strongly supported the P.L.O. Indeed, the Greek government welcomed Arafat with considerably more flamboyance than it accorded French President François Mitterrand, who arrived the same day for a state visit. On Friday, Arafat flew to Tunis, where he may set up new headquarters. This week...
...Secretary of State, and addressed to U.S. Ambassador Monteagle Stearns in Greece, was denounced in the Greek press as a forgery. The letter claimed that the U.S. supported conservatives in the Greek elections of October 1981 and suggested that a military coup would be appropriate if Greek Socialist Andreas Papandreou became Prime Minister, as indeed...
...difficulties that Papandreou caused the E.C. over the sensitive Middle East issue were merely a sample of how troublesome Greece has become following the landslide election victory of Papandreou's Panhellenic Socialist Movement. Two weeks ago, for example, Greece complained about an E.C. resolution that supported the withdrawal of Libyan occupation forces from Chad. The Greek Socialists, who maintain warm relations with Libyan Dictator Muammar Gadaffi, cautioned that "for the good of Europe" the E.C. should guard against "imperialism" and "neocolonialism...
...Papandreou himself has hardly waxed enthusiastic about Greece's E.C. membership, which was engineered by President Constantine Caramanlis 9½ months before the Socialist sweep last October. Long before the election, Papandreou had expressed strong hostility toward the E.C., and has often called for a referendum on Greece's membership in the Community. At the same time, Papandreou has expressed opposition to some E.C. export quotas, demanding that Greece be accorded special status within the Community. When he objected to one E.C. regulation on agriculture at the London summit, Belgian Prime Minister Mark Eyskens interrupted him, asking, "Then...
...other issues, Papandreou's personality seems split between the bluff and bluster of the consummate politician and the ideological pronouncements of a dedicated Socialist. Papandreou's ambivalence was particularly apparent in his first major policy speech last week when he waffled on the two key foreign policy planks of his election campaign: Greek withdrawal from NATO and the removal of U.S. military bases from Greece. He indicated that Greece might ultimately withdraw from the military wing of NATO, but he left it unclear whether this was his firm intention or merely a suggestion. Said one high-level NATO...