WORLD : Ex-Greek Premier Hospitalized
From Times Staff and Wire Service Reports
ATHENS —
Former Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou was rushed to the hospital today after joining in a bruising debate on Greece’s shattered economy and learning that his co-defendant in a bank scandal is in jail pending trial.
Papandreou, 71, who dominated politics during eight years of Socialist rule from 1981 to 1989, has led a vigorous fight against the conservative government’s economic austerity plan and sweeping free-market reforms.
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