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Thanou denies taking drugs, says bike ‘accident’ happened Disgraced sprinter testifies to prosecutors, voices hopes of running again In marathon testimony yesterday before prosecutors investigating why she and fellow sports star Costas Kenteris failed to turn up for a doping test one day before the opening of the Athens Olympics, sprinter Katerina Thanou reportedly denied any wrongdoing.

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PM to focus on tourism

Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis met with his Inner Cabinet yesterday to finalize details of the keynote speech he will give at the opening of the Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF) on Saturday, which will lay out his government's vision for the Greek economy.

Tight security for Turkey match

Approximately 1,000 police officers will surround the Karaiskaki soccer stadium in southern Athens today as part of a security operation to ensure the World Cup qualifying match between Greece and Turkey is not marred by fan violence.

Greece 3rd in net EU revenues

Greece enjoyed the third-highest net gains from the European Union budget among the 15 member states in 2003, according to figures released in Brussels yesterday.

Forest fires out as winds drop

Firemen in Halkidiki and the Megalopolis area in the southern Peloponnese succeeded yesterday in extinguishing two large fires that ravaged over 150 hectares of forest after breaking out on Monday.

Church plans services in modern-day Greek

Worried that worshippers cannot understand services, Archbishop Christodoulos, head of the Church of Greece, has instructed churches in the Athens area to start conducting...

IN BRIEF

Gov't refutes reports of understaffing, says 9,500 supply staff will fill gaps : Government spokesman Theodoros Roussopoulos and Education Minister Marietta Giannakou yesterday refuted reports...

Restrictions in Neo Faliron tonight and in central Athens tomorrow : Traffic will be banned around the Karaiskaki Stadium in Neo Faliron from 6 p.m. onward today...

Normal service resumes as winds drop : All passenger ferries were sailing from Piraeus and Rafina as normal from 5 p.m. yesterday...

Escape thwarted : A Sudanese detainee and a Greek police guard were both hospitalized yesterday...

Beslan aid : A C-130 transport aircraft is to leave for Moscow today with medical supplies...

ELA trial : The lawyer representing Christos Tsigaridas in the ongoing trial...

Disabled card : The issuance of a special card for disabled citizens has been proposed...

Presidents' guards : Of the 224 police bodyguards assigned to President Costis Stephanopoulos, only 24 are for the president's personal safety...

Hash plantation : Police in Crete have uprooted a plantation of 1,305 cannabis plants in the prefecture of Hania...


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EDITORIAL

Salonica message As usual at this time of year, the prime minister's speech at the opening of the Thessaloniki International Fair will establish not only the terms of the government's economic policy but also, to a large extent, the context for political debate in the near future. All the more so this year, as it will be the first time Costas Karamanlis has spoken from this podium as premier and without the limitations imposed by the recent Olympic Games.

COMMENTARY

A dangerous form of cynicism Ethics in politics is not something set out or enjoined by the Constitution. But that does not mean that what is constitutionally absent is thereby politically ethical, legitimate or beyond censure. And New Democracy will have every ethical prop knocked out from under it if it follows former Premier Constantine Mitsotakis's advice and calls early elections next March, on the pretext of the presidential vote. The temptation is huge. PASOK is in a state of paralysis and a fresh, possibly worse, electoral defeat in one year could well cause it to collapse. ND would increase its parliamentary majority and secure its stay in power until at least 2009.

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