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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...
...Though PASOK calls for the state takeover of such key Greek business sectors as steelmaking, petrochemical fertilizers and the cement industry, Papandreou has refused to spell out precisely how this would occur or how businessmen would be compensated. As PASOK's election prospects have improved, Papandreou's position has moderated somewhat. He no longer urges outright withdrawal from NATO and the European Community or a shutdown of U.S. bases. Instead, he is calling for a referendum on Community membership and annual negotiations with the U.S. on the status of bases. Although a Socialist government in a country...
This time it was jubilant PASOK supporters who celebrated and Papandreou who claimed victory. To the cheers of a partisan crowd that gathered outside as the returns piled up, the fiery socialist Papandreou sauntered happily into the government election center and lifted both hands high in the classic V sign. At their old headquarters building in the commercial and student section of Exarheia, youthful, bearded PASOK workers joyfully embraced as they heard the news about notable new Deputies who had won election: Actress Melina Mercouri (Never on Sunday), comfortably elected-to a seat representing the port of Piraeus-after...