Greece: No. 3

For the third time in nine weeks, King Constantine named a new Premier to replace ousted George Papandreou. This time it almost looked as though his man could muster enough votes to stay in office. Or almost enough. The man was Stephan Stephanopoulos, 66, like his two predecessors a renegade from George Papandreou's Center Union Party, and, in fact, former Deputy Premier in Papandreou's own Cabinet. Forming a "symbolic coalition" Cabinet of "national emergency," Stephanopoulos claimed the backing of 150 out of 300 Deputies in Parliament—and predicted that before a vote of confidence is taken this week, "two more...

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