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- WORLD, Page 69World NotesGREECESnubs and Empty Files
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- The conservative New Democracy Party had just entered into
- a historic coalition with the Communist-led Alliance of the Left
- and was ready to start work. But when Cabinet members arrived
- at their offices last week, some found them stripped of files
- and equipment. Tzannis Tzannetakis, the new Prime Minister, was
- greeted by a single staffer, who told him, "Everything has been
- looked after, so there is no need for files."
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- The story was similar in ministry after ministry: no
- records, not even paper clips. Had members of Andreas
- Papandreou's outgoing Panhellenic Socialist Movement spirited
- away documents that might be incriminating? Their administration
- stands accused of large-scale corruption, including embezzlement
- and taking kickbacks. Angry politicians suggested that stripping
- the offices was also an act of revenge. Some PASOK officials
- admitted as much. Sniffed one: "It was a show of our disapproval
- of the way this government was formed."
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