Once a professor at a German university, Mr Simitis used to scorn the anti-American conspiracy theories many Greeks like to invent.

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"In negotiating with the Greeks, what markets would like to see is some move toward further integration within the euro zone, " he said.

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While common to the caste-like system of Persia, prostration was something the freedom-loving Greeks scorned.

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