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Gifted Greek
Gifted Greek is a reflection on twentieth-century Greek
history and politics, as well as a character study of its first
socialist prime minister, Andreas Papandreou. Monteagle Stearns
witnessed the transformation of Papandreou from an affable American
economist to a stormy, anti-American Greek, over Stearns's three
diplomatic assignments to Athens, the last as a U.S. ambassador.
The unresolved dispute over how and by whom Greece should be
governed parallels the equally unresolved issues between Papandreou
and his estranged father, George. Andreas, who left Greece in 1940,
became a naturalized American citizen and a twenty-year resident of
the United States. In contrast, George was thoroughly Greek: a
flamboyant, republican-leaning politician, a one-time prime
minister, and a perennial leader of Greece's Liberal Party. Stearns
arrived in Athens as a diplomat in early 1958, in the thick of
Greece's political turmoil. Over the next five years, he came to
know first George Papandreou and then his son, Andreas. As
neighbors in suburban Athens, as fellow Americans, and as
like-minded critics of the problems still afflicting postwar
Greece, Stearns and Andreas quickly established a warm friendship.
Over the decades, however, that friendship was tested and frayed.
Gifted Greek is a reflection on the Cold War era, on its
impact on Greece, and on Andreas himself-whose dual nature had long
fascinated the author and led to this account of their curiously
entwined professional and personal lives.
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Greece 1980–83
Recalls the author's stint as New Zealand ambassador in Athens. Source: National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand Licence.
Journal Article
Greek Tragedy
Grigoriadis discusses the debt crisis that is challenging Greece in ways that will require major changes in the Greek psyche and the nation's entire way of life. Today, Greece is all but bankrupt, thanks in large part to excesses that have become endemic in Greek society and governance during the past three decades. Only the last-minute intervention of the European Union and the International Monetary Fund prevented a total meltdown of the country's economy in the spring of 2010. As a result, during the past 15 months, a new paradigm has been forced onto Greece. No longer can the profligacy of the past play any role in the country and its future. There is no other viable solution for Greece but radical reform. Adapted from the source document.
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Papandreou Leaves Hospital After 4 Months
Amid mounting protests in his party because of the power vacuum, Mr. Papandreou resigned in January. His Panhellenic Socialist Movement elected Costas Simitis to head the Government.
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World News Briefs; Greek Prime Minister In Stable Condition
The infection is in Mr.
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Papandreou Taken to Hospital
LEAD: Andreas Papandreou, the caretaker Prime Minister, was taken to a hospital tonight suffering from breathing problems, a Government spokesman said. He quoted doctors as saying the 70-year-old Mr.
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Greeks Open Coalition Talks
LEAD: A conservative party and the Communist-dominated leftist alliance met today to discuss forming a coalition government...
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Papandreou Survives No-Confidence Motion
The political scandal has led to the dismissal, resignation or imprisonment of several Government officials. Mr. [Andreas Papandreou] told Parliament again tonight that the allegations of corruption against him and his Government were fabricated by a fugitive Greek-American banker, 35-year-old George Koskotas, who he said is being used as a ''hostage'' by the United States Government and the conservative political opposition in Greece to bring down the Papandreou Government.
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Papandreou May Be Too Charismatic for Greece
Your Western sources misunderstand the meaning of the Greek word ''charisma.'' Mr. [Andreas Papandreou] took office in 1981, having attracted leftist voters by promising to withdraw from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the European Economic Community, and to kick United States bases out of Greece. Nothing has changed. He is the Prime Minister who visited such ''friends'' as Poland's Wojciech Jaruzelski and Libya's Muammar el-Qaddafi; who was enthusiastic about Yasir Arafat and questionable third world socialists, and who refused to attack terrorism.
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