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...once-dominant Center Union Party, plus representatives of the two minority right-wing parties who together command 107 votes. Such a coalition could try yet again to win away a last essential handful of the 134 Deputies still faithful to the tough old Center Unionist leader, ex-Premier George Papandreou. The politicians, however, were not yet ready to bury their differences. After two sessions in which they expressed their views, the council recessed without taking any action...
...Siren Song. George Papandreou, as leader of the largest party in Parliament, sat through the sessions on Constantine's left hand. He was openly contemptuous of the palace's "lures of power," which, with his orator's gift for a telling phrase, he had likened publicly to those of Circe, Ulysses' sorceress, whose lures transformed men into pigs. "Do you think," he asked Constantine, rhetorically, "that if you can get 115 Deputies in Parliament [i.e., a bare majority], you can face the people and me?" His own siren song consisted of the familiar demand for national...
...George Papandreou had outfoxed young King Constantine again. For five days the confidence vote raged over the King's third and latest choice as Premier, Elias Tsirimokos, 58, a left-leaning member of ex-Premier Papandreou's Center Union Party who broke away at Constantine's bidding to try and form a government. Fist fights and hubbub punctuated the session, and all the King's men and all of Papandreou's felt the pressure of last-minute efforts at coercion that included dark threats of murder. Tsirimokos spoke confidently of victory. The real winner turned...
...vote that defeated Tsirimokos left Constantine's supporters beginning to wonder whether it might not have been preferable for him to accede to Papandreou's original demands for elections six weeks ago. In the interim, angry demonstrators, egged on by Papandreou's attacks on the "palace slaves," have whipped latent public distrust of the monarchy to a fever pitch. An election held now would probably not only return Papandreou to office, but be interpreted as a plebiscite on the monarchy as well...
...promised to seek an early vote of confidence, but at week's end he was still reshuffling his Cabinet in an attempt to gain more support in the 300-member Parliament; most counts put him still short of a majority. His selection ignited violent riots in Athens, as Papandreou's fanatic supporters, chanting "Out with the King," fought helmeted police in scores of bloody pitched battles, burned dozens of cars, and tore up paving stones as ammunition. With Athens in a frenzy, Papandreou hopped off to the boondocks to let the people there know about what he called...