|
|
|
|
|
FRONT PAGE NEWS |
 |
 Airline caterer goes down badly with navy |
|
A pilot program to delegate cookhouse duties in the armed forces to private caterers went badly awry on its fifth day this week, with scores of newly conscripted sailors coming down with gastroenteritis after lunch at a navy training camp.
|
|
| Progress on social security |
|
| As employers' associations and workers' unions yesterday clashed over collective labor contracts for this year, Greece's largest labor union inched back slightly from its initial positions on social security reform, saying it would back plans for separate funds for each professional group.
|
|
| Olympic sale deadline on Monday |
|
| The government yesterday extended the deadline for Olympic Airways' privatization once again, indicating the difficulty that it was having in selling the troubled national carrier.
«On Monday the definitive decisions will be taken as to whether to continue negotiations with the agents of the second bid,» government spokesman Christos Protopapas said.
|
|
| Papa, Popa, Passaris — partners? |
|
| A possible link between an Albanian national known to have masterminded at least 11 bank robberies in Attica and Greece's most wanted criminal, Costas Passaris, is being investigated by police following the arrest of Constantin Papa in the coastal suburb of Alimos on Wednesday, as the latter tried to get into a stolen car being tailed by police.
|
|
| Albanian church attack ‘act of religious hatred’ |
|
| TIRANA (AP) - The Albanian Greek Orthodox Church protested yesterday against the desecration of an Orthodox church in southern Albania, denouncing it as an act of «religious hatred.» The church is in the village of Dervican, near Gjirokastra, where the population is mostly ethnic Greek.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Exclusively available inside The International Herald Tribune in Greece and Cyprus
Home page
