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Industrialists agree with PM’s plans Steady course for economy Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis and Greek industrialists agreed at a meeting yesterday that, in the wake of the Olympics, the economy needs a period of steady transition and not harsh financial measures. After the meeting, the president of the Federation of Greek Industries (SEV), Odysseas Kyriakopoulos, declared himself pleased with the outcome of talks and stated that Greece had an historic opportunity to maintain the outgoing economic climate created in the country during the successful Athens Games.

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Water threat ignored

As a Thessaloniki prosecutor yesterday launched an investigation into the collapse of the public water supply in Greece's second largest city, experts told Kathimerini that the local water board had known for at least four years that the main pipe serving the city was dangerously corroded.

Nicosia sends a signal to London

The Cypriot government has asked the United Nations to withdraw at least part of the British contingent from its peacekeeping troops on the island if the international organization decides to scale down its presence there, reports said yesterday.

Putin visit to Greece canceled

Russian President Vladimir Putin canceled his proposed visit to Greece today after the school hostage crisis in North Ossetia resulted in numerous deaths yesterday. Greek Foreign Minister Petros Molyviatis announced the change of plans in the Netherlands, where he was attending a meeting of the EU council of Foreign Ministers

Special disabled guide for Paralympic police

Two weeks before Athens hosts the Paralympics, Greek police chiefs have issued officers with a special manual advising them how to treat disabled people. In a country where disabled facilities are at a minimum, Greek police officers could be ignorant of disabled people's needs so their superiors have given them a guide on how they should behave during the September 17-28 Paralympics.

IN BRIEF

Turkish jets reappear in the Aegean, Nicosia lodges complaint with UN : Six formations of Turkish fighter jets yesterday entered the Athens Flight Information Region six times and violated Greek national air space...

Attica mayors propose setting up body to maintain sites after the Paralympics : The Attica mayors whose municipalities contain Olympic venues yesterday proposed that they should form a central administrative body to manage and maintain the sites...

Man, 60, second to be fatally injured : A 60-year-old man died shortly after 8 a.m. yesterday after being hit by an Athens tram on a pedestrian crossing in Nea Smyrni....

Tax offenders : One in four Greek firms is violating tax laws, with the highest rate of transgression seen in Attica, according to inspections which were conducted last July...

Windy weekend : Local authorities were on standby yesterday after the General Secretariat for Civil Defense warned that winds would reach up to 9 Beaufort over the weekend...

Olympic coverage : More than 200 television networks offered coverage of last month's Olympic Games...

Athens demo : Hundreds of members of leftist groups and labor unions staged a protest in central Athens yesterday, objecting to plans for the continued use of surveillance cameras...

Heating fuel : Economy Minister Giorgos Alogoskoufis yesterday rebutted reports that there would be an increase in the tax...

Heroin haul : A Greek man has been arrested with over 6 kilos of heroin, police in the northern prefecture of Pella said yesterday....


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Greece debuts as Euro champ
EDITORIAL

Cycle of violence The images of hostages and their distraught parents fleeing the school in northern Ossetia were a horrible shock to all of us who could not grasp this most extreme form of terrorism - small children being used as shields. Westerners are unnerved by the intensity of the phenomenon, the barbarity of the act, the use of children for the promotion of separatist aspirations or other demands. The mere thought that the Athens Olympic Games could have become the theater for similar terrorist acts is hair-raising. Extremism of this kind may seem incomprehensible to us, but the causes need to be examined. Unjustifiable as such acts may be, we must nevertheless acknowledge that they are generated under conditions of political or military oppression.

COMMENTARY

A leap forward Barring any reservations about the cost of hosting the Athens Olympics, most would agree that the Games helped upgrade the country's infrastructure and advertise the country to the world. The revival of Greece's image as a tourist destination alone was worth the people's sacrifices. The extensive publicity that came with the Games is expected to boost Greece's tourism industry in the years to come. According to an Alpha Bank study, the promotion of the country and investment in infrastructure could push the number of foreign visitors from 13 million this year up to 18 million in 2010.

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