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...election of Greece's first Socialist prime minister last month resulted from a grassroots political organization that appealed strongly to workers and farmers, four Greek professors told about 25 people at the Center for European Studies yesterday...
...think it necessary to provide a lengthy response to the attack on myself and my organization (the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee) by the Spartacus Youth League printed in your letter section of October 26. I have always believed that the best way to discredit the SYL is to let them speak (or write) for themselves, and they have reaffirmed my faith with their latest diatribe. I would, however, like to briefly describe our meeting policy...
...government replied ohi (no) to Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini's ultimatum to allow his troops to occupy strategic points on Greek territory. Yet for a majority of Greeks Ohi Day came somewhat earlier this year. In a landslide election that brought to power the country's first socialist government, Greeks last week not only said ohi to the conservative New Democracy party, which has ruled for the past seven years, but they also delivered a cryptic "maybe" to the U.S. and to two organizations of which Greece is a member: NATO and the European Community...
...caused concern in Western capitals with his spectacular victory and his nationalistic platform was Andreas Papandreou, 62, who, ironically enough, is a former U.S. citizen. Leader of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK), Papandreou moved into the cavernous, wood-paneled Prime Minister's office occupied by his more moderate father George, who headed three governments between 1944 and 1965. With 48.6% of the vote to New Democracy's 35.9%, PASOK won a majority of 172 seats in the 300-member parliament. In a nearly symmetrical reversal of fortunes, New Democracy, led by outgoing Prime Minister George Rallis, fell from...
...Western Europe. Papandreou's victory was immediately compared with that of his fellow socialist, François Mitterrand, who was elected President of France five months ago after 23 years of conservative rule. Many French analysts sympathetic to Mitterrand saw the Greek socialists' victory as an affirmation that a fragile democracy had come of age. Pronounced the leftist daily Le Monde: "It is part of a democratic switch from one political party to another that has been all but absent in modern Greek politics...