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...Athens' Constitution Square, the scene was much as it often had been during the hot, tense summer. Burly young demonstrators chanted "Papandreou" and "Traitors!" at Deputies emerging from the Parliament building, where scores of them had just deserted former Premier George Papandreou to vote for a rival Premier. If the demonstration seemed angrier than ever, it was because after ten weeks of crisis, Parliament had at last voted its confidence in a leader nominated by young King Constantine...
Former Deputy Premier Stephan Stephanopoulos, a 66-year-old bachelor, had turned the trick when he swore in as members of his new "coalition" Cabinet loannis Glavanis and Isador Mavri-doglou, two of the latest defectors from Papandreou's onetime majority party, the Center Union. They brought Stephanopoulos' total support in the 300-man Parliament to a slender majority ,pl 152. Before and during the noisy debate that led up to the final vote, Papandreou's men in Parliament were reduced to chanting insults and spreading the rumor that one of the defectors had died...
...palace "has bought off eight more Deputies at the cost of Cabinet posts," snapped George Papandreou. In fact, if any buying of votes had been done, it was done by George Papandreou himself during his 15 months as Premier-and therein lies the essence of one of his successor's thorniest problems. Solidifying the popularity he had won throueh his oratory, Papandreou boosted minimum salaries of teachers and civil servants by 12%, increased social security benefits to workers and -in a land where 51% of the electorate lives on the farm-raised farm subsidies from $40 million...
...third time in nine weeks, King Constantine named a new Premier to replace ousted George Papandreou. This time it almost looked as though his man could muster enough votes to stay in office. Or almost enough. The man was Stephan Stephanopoulos, 66, like his two predecessors a renegade from George Papandreou's Center Union Party, and, in fact, former Deputy Premier in Papandreou's own Cabinet. Forming a "symbolic coalition" Cabinet of "national emergency," Stephanopoulos claimed the backing of 150 out of 300 Deputies in Parliament-and predicted that before a vote of confidence is taken this week...
Would the King's new choice be any more successful than his others? Not if the royal nemesis could do anything to foil him. Calling for a gigantic convocation of his demonstration-happy followers in Salonika, canny old George Papandreou declaimed: "Governments and Parliaments must reflect the will of the people, and neither this government nor Parliament does that. But the people's will shall win, and the people will wipe this government out of existence." In downtown Athens, 10,000 left-wing union members rallied at a theater and demanded Papandreou's return or immediate elections...