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- <text id=89TT1846>
- <title>
- July 17, 1989: World Notes:Greece
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- July 17, 1989 Death By Gun
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 69
- World Notes
- GREECE
- Snubs and Empty Files
- </hdr><body>
- <p> 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."
- </p>
- <p> 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."
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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