Word: pasok
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...slumping currency, the four-year-old center-rightist government of Prime Minister George Rallis is coming under a withering campaign assault from left-wing Socialist Opposition Leader Andreas Papandreou. The onetime University of California economics professor, now head of Greece's far-left Pan-Hellenic Socialist Movement, or PASOK, blames his country's misfortunes on everything from membership in the European Community to its return last year to full military participation in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization...
...Though PASOK holds only 93 of Parliament's 300 seats, vs. 172 for Rallis' ruling New Democracy Party, the Papandreou organization has rapidly gained strength since its founding in 1974, after the collapse of seven years of military rule. The outcome of the election is now considered a tossup...
...PASOK has been able to cash in on Greece's social and economic troubles. The country's current rulers look weak, in part because extremist violence has climbed sharply in recent months, with a heretofore unheard-of wave of politically inspired department-store firebombings and arsonist attacks...