Athens
Greeks have elected Dora Bakoyianni, scion of a prominent political family, to be the first woman mayor of Athens. Her father, former prime minister Constantine Mitsotakis, took the family to Paris to flee the military dictatorship that took over Greece in 1967. They returned in 1974, when military rule collapsed. Bakoyianni is the widow of Pavlos Bakoyianni, a journalist who was gunned down by the terrorist group November 17 in 1989. As culture minister in her father’s Cabinet in the early 1990s, she led a crusade to track down and punish November 17 members. Many of the terrorists were finally apprehended this year.
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