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...symbolic winner in the election was Andreas Papandreou's Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK), which doubled its vote to 25% and won 92 seats, thereby becoming Greece's second leading party and the main opposition. PASOK overtook George Mavros' middle-of-the-road Democratic Center Union, which fell to 12% of the vote and won only 15 seats. On the far right, the new National Rally Party won 7% and five seats; on the far left, Greece's two Communist parties-one Moscow-lining, the other Eurocommunist in outlook and running jointly with other splinter groups-garnered...
...home of a promonarchist deputy of the New Democracy Party named Hippocrates Savvouras. Savvouras, who admitted that the illegal arms were his (Greece has a strict antigun law), was kicked out of his party. Two prominent members of militant Socialist Andreas Papandreou's Pan-Hellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) were also caught in possession of five Kalashnikovs and a rocket launcher. Both were tried and received suspended sentences...
...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...
...were also bitterly divided among themselves, so much so that some party leaders counseled their followers to vote for Caramanlis. Others backed the Premier because they feared that a strong Communist showing might provoke another round of repression or possibly another military coup. Even so, the combined showing of Pasok and the United Left (23%) was considerably better than the 12% that the left captured in the last election...
...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...