George Papandreou, the foreign minister and son of Pasok's populist founder, the late Andreas Papandreou, would be the best-qualified alternative.

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American officials reacted to Andreas Papandreou's speech with a sophisticated shrug.

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Such people, old disciples of the late Andreas Papandreou, Greece's long-serving populist leader, have portrayed Mr Ocalan and the rebel Kurds as noble guerrillas fighting for independence from Turkey, just as Greeks did in the last century.

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