PASOK lown o bases
Socialist Organiser1983 1983-07-21Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 7 →
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IN ONE of his books, Andreas Papandreou, now Prime Minister of Greece, tells how when he was a minister' in his father's 1965-8 government he called the Head of the Greek Secret Service to his office to instruct him to stop bugging his office.
"You don't give the orders here" , the head of the KYP told him bluntly, 'the Americans do. I shall continue to bug your office."
When Andreas Papandreou campaigned as leader of the left-reformist PASOK party in 1981 he promised that if elected Prime Minister the US would be told to get out of Greece where they have military bases. Given his exposure of US influence he was widely believed.
Now Papandreou has renegotiated US tenure of the bases until 1989. The new agreement would expire at the end of 1988 but the US would have another 17 months after that.
By lighting so long a fuse, Papandreou has seen to it that if PASOK doesn't win the next election a new incoming government can stamp out the spark and re-negotiate another long lease ... which future reformist governments will, following Papandreou's example, no doubt honour to the letter.
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Zapata (centre, with wide-brimmed hat) and Villa (right, wearing military uniform) ride into Mexico City The