Word: primes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...classical Greece the elected magistrates of Athens, called Archons, held secret ballots to banish leaders when they were accused of serious transgressions. Last week a similar process began in the Greek parliament after two government commissions recommended that criminal charges be brought against former Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou. The panels accused Papandreou of complicity in the Bank of Crete scandal and of ordering illegal wiretaps. Parliament is expected to refer the charges to a special criminal court...
...Bank of Crete scandal involves allegations by the bank's owner, George Koskotas, that he systematically looted the Athens-based institution of some $210 million, and then distributed much of the money to high-ranking members of the Socialist Party (PASOK), including the Prime Minister. The commission said it found enough corroboration of Koskotas' charges, which he first made publicly in exclusive interviews with TIME last March,* to recommend prosecution of Papandreou for bribe taking and receiving stolen money...
...been a long day of campaigning, and the Prime Minister had a cold. Wrapped in a violet overcoat, she leafed through stump speeches as the 1953 Convair turboprop plane bounced around over the stubby mountains of the Norwegian coastline...
Toward the back of the plane, one of the press photographers was sliding lower in his seat, clutching his stomach, turning gray. His worried colleagues were at a loss to help him until someone remembered there was a doctor on board -- and summoned the Prime Minister...
...didn't want to overdramatize things," she told the patient gently, once she had settled him into the ambulance, "but you showed signs of going into shock." The following day, as he prepared to undergo surgery for gallstones, a bouquet arrived from the Prime Minister's office. Red roses. The symbol of her Labor Party...