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Simitis era wraps up Extraordinary PASOK congress to prepare Papandreou’s election Prime Minister Costas Simitis chaired his last Cabinet meeting yesterday, a day ahead of the extraordinary PASOK congress set to name Foreign Minister George Papandreou to succeed him as party leader.

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Annan calls Cypriots to New York

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan yesterday invited Cyprus President Tassos Papadopoulos and Turkish-Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash to resume talks in New York next Tuesday in a bid to reunify their island in time for its accession to the EU on May 1.

Big Brother gets hearing aid

Microphones that will listen to street noise during the Olympics are being added to surveillance cameras around Athens to improve security, the government said yesterday. «If there is an explosion, we must be able to hear the sound in real time,» Public Order Giorgos Floridis said.

Drunks at wheels of most trucks

A determined drive to improve Greece's embarrassingly high road accident figures has already exceeded its targets three years into the five-year program, officials said yesterday.

Bank robbers caught with loot

Four dangerous criminals, including a former policeman and an escaped convict, have been arrested on suspicion of mounting an armed bank heist in southern Athens on Wednesday, police said yesterday.

Anarchist cleared of terror link over gun

A veteran anarchist was given a suspended 10-month sentence yesterday for possession of a submachine gun, which he had been accused of acquiring in order to arm a terrorist group. A Thessaloniki court found Grigoris Tsilimantos guilty of illegal firearms possession, but cleared him of any link with terrorist groups.

IN BRIEF

Major three-day drill simulating terrorist attacks starts today : Around 1,100 police, coast guard and fire brigade officers are to participate in a three-day pre-Olympics security exercise...

Olive growers lift roadblock after deal on oil subsidies : Protesting olive growers yesterday retreated from the Patras-Corinth national road...

Cabbies threaten to strike over fares : The union representing taxi drivers across the country yesterday demanded the right to increase their fares...

Ferry tickets : Passengers traveling to the islands to vote in the March 7 elections are entitled to a 20 percent discount...

Work site accident : A 21-year-old laborer died yesterday after falling off four-meter-high scaffolding while doing a welding job...

OA action : Protesting Olympic Airlines flight attendants yesterday launched another series of three two-day strikes...

ELA trial : The Athens Bar Association yesterday issued a document to all defense and prosecution lawyers who will be participating...

Bullet scare : Police in Thessaloniki were yesterday investigating the discovery of a nine-millimeter bullet found on the doormat outside the office of Giorgos Petsos...

Drug hauls : Thessaloniki police yesterday arrested a 30-year-old man after spotting him collecting a plastic bag containing...


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Athens 2004 Organizing Committee...
EDITORIAL

Polls and Cyprus The Cabinet of this government met yesterday for the last time. Apart from the expressions of gratitude and farewell, the Cabinet had the task of setting an official date for the dissolution of Parliament, as well as electing and convening the new one - a date it will then have to submit to President Costis Stephanopoulos. Because of the nature of the agenda, yesterday's session was a formality and George Papandreou can be excused for being absent.

COMMENTARY

The weight of public opinion The post-1974 party model is in crisis. It has degenerated into a bureaucratic apparatus which is unwilling and unable to meet social demands through a cohesive political plan. George Papandreou has, in the past, proposed PASOK's transformation into an open party based on participatory democracy. Accordingly, he backed the idea of a chairman elected by the party base. In short, he is not driven by opportunism. The fact that the popular vote takes place in a pre-election period serves his objectives.

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