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...expectations. The moderate Center Union-New Forces Party of former Foreign Minister George Mavros, which handily won Greece's last election before the colonels' coup, fell far short of expected goals, with only 20% of the vote and 60 seats. Trailing a poor third was Andreas Papandreou's Panhellenic Socialist Movement (Pasok) with 14% and twelve seats. Papandreou, son of the late George Papandreou, Greece's last elected premier, organized a "children's crusade" of sorts (see box following page), with young people campaigning around the country against the crown, the junta, the Establishment...
...first time in nearly three decades that the Communists had been allowed to campaign legally, but they emerged as considerably less than a threat, gaining only 9% of the vote and eight seats. Papandreou's Pasok party, for one thing, drew votes away from the Communists, who attacked him as an "American stooge." At least 500,000 Communists did not vote because they had not registered last March when the junta was still in power-and registering then meant seeing the police...
...next afternoon two minor earthquakes hit Athens-strong enough to make windows rattle, tables and chairs tremble. A fitting prelude to Andreas Papandreou's appearance in Syntagma Square? Perhaps. For the former Berkeley and Harvard economics professor, leader of the new Panhellenic Socialist Movement (Pasok), had brought an unsettling element to the campaign. Barnstorming the country in a black leather jacket, followed by hordes of young people in jeans and faded army field jackets, he brought a new style of campaigning to Greece and emerged as a political messiah of the young...
CERTAINLY WITH the highest rate of inflation in Europe, Greece could use Andreas's economic expertise, already tested with impressive results during George Papandreou's term...
...cent of the vote, on its psychological influence. In the past, coercion has held sway. And the electoral system has reinforced the right--although the quantity of votes required by the leading party previously measured at only 15 per cent. In the 1963 and 1967 elections, George Papandreou defied the stacked deck, almost toppling it; the events of last summer jarred it. But if Caramanlis prevails tomorrow its structure will remain, in the interest of stability...