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<text id=89TT3172>
<title>
Dec. 04, 1989: World Notes:Greece
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
Dec. 04, 1989 Women Face The '90s
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
WORLD, Page 61
World Notes
GREECE
Partnership Of Enemies
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<p> In the end there were only two choices: hold the third
national election in less than a year, or adopt the
parliamentary course of last resort, a government of national
unity. Last week Greece's three warring political groups
swallowed hard and chose the latter. In the new government that
was sworn in last week, conservatives, socialists and Communists
are for the first time ever steering the ship of state in
unison. The new coalition, which is led by Prime Minister
Xenophon Zolotas, 85, a former governor of the Bank of Greece,
will remain in office until new elections in April.
</p>
<p> The uncomfortable partnership was made possible after
Socialist leader Andreas Papandreou finally dropped his demand
for electoral reforms that would have benefited the leftists.
The former Prime Minister, 70, who has been charged with bribe
taking and breach of faith, will have no formal position in the
new government.
</p>
<p> For Zolotas, who is not a member of any party, the top
priority is to repair the creaking economy, which is burdened
by a large public debt and a 14% inflation rate -- three times
that of the European Community. Several remedial measures have
already been announced, including a 5% income tax hike and a 1%
reduction in public spending.
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