Two hours after the polls closed at sunset, almost everyone in Athens knew the results. In Greece's first free elections since 1964, the voters placed their trust in the man who had returned from exile four months before to lead them out of the dark years of military rule and the debacle of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus. In one of the most impressive mandates ever bestowed on a modern Greek leader, Premier Constantino Caramanlis, 67, and his conservative New Democracy Party swept to victory with 54% of the vote and 220...
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