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PM rallies the troops Simitis believes it’s the economy that will decide the election The upcoming national elections will hinge on the degree of the voters' trust in the economy, Prime Minister Costas Simitis told a gathering of ruling Socialists yesterday.

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Protesting police under investigation

The chief of the Greek police ordered a «most urgent» investigation yesterday into Wednesday evening's protest by police unionists who blocked the entrance to the Economy Ministry in the center of Athens.

Foul play feared in Cyprus vote

NICOSIA - A Turkish-Cypriot opposition leader yesterday asked judicial officials in the Turkish-occupied north of the island to act against alleged attempts to register ineligible voters for December's polls, the result of which may have major repercussions on the future of long-divided Cyprus.

War games decision welcomed

The United States yesterday expressed satisfaction with Thursday's decision by Greece and Turkey to cancel scheduled military exercises on and around Cyprus, as Athens denied it had kept Nicosia in the dark on the matter.

N. Ireland vow to make a stand

Greece, on the verge of qualifying for the Euro 2004 soccer finals for the first time in over two decades, will be chasing victory in tonight's concluding qualifier against lowly Northern Ireland in Athens to guarantee its place.

Flag row revives as Odhise still tops class

Three years after their campaign to stop a top-performing Albanian schoolboy carrying Greece's flag in a school parade, a group of northern villagers yesterday said they would force their children to boycott this year's event unless foreign pupils are banned...

IN BRIEF

Strike to affect Acropolis, Dion, Mycenae, Knossos this week : Several museums and archaeological sites across the country are to be closed next week...

Top Greek soccer clubs fined for crowd trouble in European league : Soccer clubs Panathinaikos and Olympiakos were yesterday fined a total of 150,000 Swiss francs (97,400 euros) by UEFA...

Chinese patient recovering well : A 38-year-old Chinese meteorologist who was taken to Athens’s General Air Force Hospital...

Traffic disruption : Traffic will be disrupted in central Athens from 4 p.m. today as a cycle race, from the Acropolis to Mount Hymettus, gets under way...

2004 training : France’s anti-terrorist police unit is to train two teams of elite Greek police and coast guard teams for the Olympics, the French Embassy in Athens said yesterday...

Fraud probe : The Popular Bank of Greece yesterday confirmed press reports that a criminal ring had been issuing dud checks to conduct illegal transactions...

Karamanlis : Opposition New Democracy leader Costas yesterday met Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze during a visit to Tbilisi...

School knifing : A 17-year-old pupil from a secondary school in Lavrion, southern Attica, is to face a prosecutor after using a flick-knife to injure two fellow pupils...

Church dialogue : The Holy Synod of the Church of Greece yesterday thanked Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomaios for accepting Archbishop Christodoulos’s invite to a meeting...


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EDITORIAL

Turkey’s Iraq troops The difficulties facing American forces in bringing Iraq under their control has plunged Ankara back into the diplomatic game from which it had been sidelined after the crisis in relations with Washington last spring. Early in the Iraq war, Turkey objected to the transit of US troops - which was part of American efforts to open a northern front against Baghdad - through its territory.

COMMENTARY

A new social contract Many bizarre things are happening these days. Police beat each other up, judges put down their gavels and go on strike, university professors stop lecturing but still claim their full salaries. Are all these legitimate manifestations of work demands, or do they indicate a society in degeneration?

OPINION

The income swindle As one of our greatest problems is the gulf between our income and basic consumer needs, we think we will feel much better if we acquire the average European wage. But I believe that, once again, we are simply deluding ourselves - in view of inflation, the type of work we do, and the percentage of our population which is economically active. And I would like to mention another couple of reasons why convergence with European salaries is not going to solve our problems. We are obsessed about our annual salaries being raised above the cost-of-living index. But even if our income was to increase three times faster than inflation within a year...

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