Grapevine: Apr. 30, 1990

DOING WELL BY DOING GOOD. Incoming Greek Prime Minister Constantine Mitsotakis is vowing to hand suspected terrorist Mohammed Rashid over to the U.S. to stand trial for the 1982 midflight bombing of a Pan Am jet near Hawaii. The U.S. has been trying to get hold of Rashid ever since he was arrested in Greece, but the unfriendly government of Andreas Papandreou always said no. However, Mitsotakis' gift may come with a condition attached: the return to Greece of accused embezzler George Koskotas, now in a Massachusetts prison. Koskotas would then be available to testify if Papandreou is brought to trial...

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