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PM sets out priorities for new ministers Focus will be on economy and public order Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis had the first opportunity yesterday to speak to his new Cabinet following a swearing-in ceremony, as he underlined that the economy and public order would top his government's to-do list.

FRONT PAGE NEWS

Students resume protests and revive fears

As leftist students prepare to resume anti-government protests with a rally today, university academics expressed fears...

Migrants chase driving licenses

Four out of 10 learners at Greek driving schools are immigrants seeking to get their licenses in order to boost their file of official documents...

Fresh violations by Turkish jets

More Turkish fighter jets flew over the small Dodecanese islands of Agathonisi and Farmakonisi yesterday...

Gullible Greek falls for lottery swindle

Two Britons and two Syrians believed to have swindled a Thessaloniki man out of thousands of euros in an online scam...

IN BRIEF

Arsonists target a bank and a coffee shop, causing damage : Unidentified assailants firebombed a bank in the Athens neighborhood of Kato Petralona...

Police widen suspects search : Police officers intend to question about 25 people...

Jewel heist : Police on Rhodes were yesterday seeking the robbers...

Cyprus talks : Turkish-Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat yesterday suggested...

Tram interruption : There will be no tram service between noon and 4 p.m. on Monday...

Snack bar fire : A fire that broke out in a snack bar in Livadia, north of Athens...

Prison riot : Two Cypriot brothers who are inmates at Nicosia's main prison...


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Annual Ragoutsaria carnival... Kastoria residents yesterday paraded through the northern city dressed as scarecrows...

EDITORIAL

Service without trepidation No state, and especially not the Greek state, can function with politicians alone. Beyond that, it needs technocrats. It needs people who are highly experienced in specialized fields, and who know how to manage major issues. Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis acknowledged this need and he invited the services of party members who had a reputation for doing well in their respective fields, placing them in key positions such as in OTE telecom, the Public Power Corporation and the Ministry of Public Order.

EDITORIAL:AthensPlus

Cultivating terror The most frightening thing about the shooting of a young police officer by suspected members of an extreme-leftist terrorist group is how predictable the whole thing was. As 21-year-old Diamantis Mantzounis lies in critical condition in the Red Cross Hospital, wounded by bullets in Monday's attack, Greeks are once again witness to the equivocations that have kept public debate tangled up in myths and nonsense for the past 30 years or so.

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