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Caramanlis wins, but Papandreou comes on strong...
...elections of 1961 were rigged and in 1965 the king arbitrarily fired Prime Minister George Papandreou, who had just received 53 per cent of the popular vote in the election...
...when a small arsenal was discovered in the home of a promonarchist deputy of the New Democracy Party named Hippocrates Savvouras. Savvouras, who admitted that the illegal arms were his (Greece has a strict antigun law), was kicked out of his party. Two prominent members of militant Socialist Andreas Papandreou's Pan-Hellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) were also caught in possession of five Kalashnikovs and a rocket launcher. Both were tried and received suspended sentences...
...Athens, top Greek military commanders advised Premier Constantine Caramanlis to sink the Sismik. Socialist Party Leader Andreas Papandreou urged the same course. "Treat the Sismik as if she were Turkish troops on Greek land," he said...
...widely believed in Greece. Deyannis forbade almost all discussion of the question by insisting that the court was interested solely in finding out what happened on the day of the coup. The most important testimony touching on the CIA to be admitted during the trial came from Andreas Papandreou, the leader of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement and a volubly anti-American leftist. According to Papandreou, the Greek intelligence service (KYP) was heavily financed and directed by its U.S. counterpart. "I can assure you," he testified, "that these men [the defendants] worked in direct cooperation and correspondence with the Americans...