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‘The time for celebration is here’ PM Karamanlis welcomes the world to Athens, thanks all involved and promises great Olympics

Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis, in a nationally broadcast statement, yesterday welcomed the world to Athens, thanked the people for their sacrifices and all those involved in the preparations and declared that the time for celebration had arrived.
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Rogge confident of ‘excellent’ 2004
IOC President Jacques Rogge yesterday expressed confidence that the Athens 2004 Olympics would be «excellent.»
Mexicans test police patience
Police gearing up to confront a potential terrorist attack during the Athens Olympics have found themselves plagued by a totally different type of adversary - the Mexican television journalist. In the fourth incident involving Mexican media workers in just over a week, police yesterday detained a cameraman, a producer and an actor working for private Televisa TV for staging a theft from a Plaka shop to see how security forces and passers-by would react.
Lover follows Olympian’s suicide leap
The boyfriend of a Greek Olympic athlete critically injured on Saturday after leaping off a balcony following a lovers' quarrel tried to take his own life yesterday in exactly the same fashion - jumping from his Athens flat.
New restrictions for city motorists
Police yesterday announced a new set of major restrictions for motorists driving in the capital, to facilitate Olympic traffic on Friday's opening ceremonies as well as cyclists competing in the city center. From 3 p.m. on Friday to 2 a.m. on Saturday, all non-Games related vehicles will be banned from Vassilissis Sofias Avenue from the Hilton Hotel to the Ambelokipi junction, on Kifissias Ave from Ambelokipi to the Attiki Odos and on Kymis Ave from the Attiki Odos to Tralleon Street.
IN BRIEF
Kerameikos opened yesterday, Marathon inauguration today : Deputy Culture Minister Petros Tatoulis yesterday inaugurated the new permanent exhibition...
New station at Aghios Antonios to serve western Athens suburbs : Public Works Minister Giorgos Souflias yesterday inaugurated a new Athens metro station...
Will attend conference, Games opening : Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomaios is due in Athens today ahead of a conference...
Baseball cheats caught : Two members of Greece's Olympic baseball team have tested positive for use of illegal performance-enhancing drugs...
Illegal immigrants : Coast guard patrols along the Greek-Turkish sea border have stopped nine smuggling ships since August 1...
City guide : A 400-page booklet, containing a comprehensive guide to sights and entertainment...
Papamichail funeral : Stage and screen actor Dimitris Papamichail, who died of a heart attack on Sunday at the age of 70...
Syntagma rally : The Communist-led PAME labor movement is to hold a rally at 7 p.m. today in Syntagma Sq...
Doctors strike : Doctors at the Thriasio hospital in Elefsina are today due to stage a strike from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m...
Speedboat injury : A 78-year-old woman was receiving medical treatment on Poros...

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EDITORIAL
The truth about Olympic projects
 The inauguration and pending delivery of the Rio-Antirio bridge has touched off a game of public relations among Greece's rival political parties. At a time when Greeks are overwhelmed with joy and pride at seeing an impressive and beautiful technical undertaking coming together - in what is the materialization of a century-old dream - some isolated voices are trying to politically appropriate the project, as it were, prompted by reasons of political expediency or in-party power play.
COMMENTARY
Greek for foreigners
 "Greeks bear an uncanny resemblance to cats. However tricky a situation they find themselves in, they always manage to land on their feet,» a former ambassador said of Greeks in an off-the-record conversation with Greek and foreign journalists weeks ago. Any upbeat comment at that time was a jarring note to the overall mood. Foreign press reports on the Athens Olympics preparations were most often accompanied by Greek words that have made their way into the West without losing any of their ominous content - words such as «chaos» or «catastrophe.»
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