Andreas papandreou, a proud Greek socialist who stood up to his country's coup-mongering generals in the 1960s, won an election in October 1981 by fulminating against the European Economic Community (as it was then known) and vowing to lead Greece out of NATO. But in office he executed a graceful ko-lotoumba (somersault), discovering a taste for European subsidies that could be used to expand his crony state and turning himself into an engaged, if awkward, NATO partner. Greece's interests, Papandreou determined, were best served by exploiting the rules of the clubs it belonged to, not by tearing them up.
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