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Echo of November 17 Published ‘proclamation’ is denounced as a fake by authorities The investigation into November 17 was overshadowed yesterday by a proclamation that purported to be from members of the terrorist organization declaring «We are still alive»and warning that they might take hostages if their jailed comrades do not receive a fair trial. Public Order Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis, senior police officials and even one suspect who has confessed to being a senior operative of November 17 described the proclamation as a fake. But that did not prevent passionate analysis on radio and television.

FRONT PAGE NEWS

Suspected chief hitman is charged

Savvas Xeros, the icon painter and priest's son whose confession to being a member of November 17 prompted the terrorist group's sudden unraveling over the past month, was charged yesterday with eight felonies...

Paris date for Cyprus talks

NICOSIA (Reuters) - UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan will meet Cypriot President Glafcos Clerides and Turkish-Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash on September 6 in Paris to review faltering peace talks, a UN spokesman said yesterday.

Focus on illegal migrants

Senior officials from six ministries are to cooperate in a new committee intended to crack down on illegal immigration and to decide on what diplomatic action will be taken to pressure Ankara...

Hope for the Temple of Zeus

Ditching 16-year old plans - which were never implemented - to partially conserve the battered Temple of Olympian Zeus in central Athens, one of the capital's major landmarks, the Ministry of Culture...

Extended hunting season riles bird-lovers

Greece's extension of its hunting season will lead to a European Court conviction and is a concession to the demands of the country's hunting lobby, environmentalists charged yesterday.

IN BRIEF

Firms punished for misleading investors, insider trading : Capital market authorities yesterday imposed a record 15.2-million-euro fine...

Clinics on skeleton staff as doctors step up protests : Social Security Foundation (IKA) clinics will be operating on emergency staff...

Minister heralds ‘effort to economize’ Departing from his previously-stated policy, Defence Minister Yiannos Papantoniou...

Earthquake An earthquake, measuring 4.5 on the Richter scale...

Clubs closed A total of 16 popular night spots across the country...

Costa-Gavras Paris-based Greek film director Constantin Costa-Gavras...

Cyprus roasting Temperatures in Cyprus yesterday exceeded 40 degrees Celsius (104F)...

FYROM visas The Foreign Ministry said yesterday that it would try to facilitate the entry...

Roadworks Roadworks started yesterday on Kifissias Avenue, Athens...

Tourist stabbed An Irish tourist was being treated for serious neck injuries in a Cyprus hospital...


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Prime Minister Costas Simitis meets firefighters...
EDITORIAL

No to intervention Less than 24 hours had passed since Tuesday, when Kathimerini warned in its editorial that efforts might be made to lead the investigation into November 17 astray, when the first such intervention appeared in the form of a proclamation that purported to be from the terrorist organization, but whose authenticity is highly questionable. Some people, whose identity and ultimate purpose can only be guessed at because it is impossible to identify them on the basis of the evidence, tried to transform the corpse of November 17 into a phantom hovering over the country again.

COMMENTARY

Nothing but crude violence No, the November 17 organization is not an «organization of militants,» as the author of the proclamation sent yesterday to the newspaper Eleftherotypia claims. Those who wage genuine struggles for the people's interests and fight to contain every authoritarian impulse by governments during periods of complete normality do not murder people or commit robberies; they do not hide, and they don't harm democracy and the country's international relations by using. 45 pistols and rockets. True social militants fight it out in the open, speak out in public.

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