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Medical helicopter goes down Third fatal crash in two years apparently kills four; inquiry demanded, night flights halted An ambulance helicopter racing to Icaria to pick up a seriously ill woman crashed four miles off the eastern Aegean island, with the apparent loss of its four-man crew, in the early hours yesterday. This, the third fatal helicopter accident involving the National First Aid Center (EKAB) in just over two years, raised urgent questions as to the causes of the crashes that have now killed 14 people. The government immediately suspended all night flights by EKAB's three remaining Agusta A109 E helicopters.

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EU summit to go ahead

Greece's partners in the European Union agreed to an emergency summit in Brussels on Monday «after many discussions,» government spokesman Christos Protopappas said...

Road collapse sparks debate

Civil engineers yesterday criticized the government's explanation of the collapse, over the past few days, of parts of two major highways in the Peloponnese due to ground subsidence...

2004 offer to exile city strays

In a bid to clear Athens of thousands of stray dogs without overtly angering animal welfare groups, 2004 Olympics organizers said yesterday they would give the government a plot of land...

Olympic works ‘under control’

Preparations for the 2004 Olympics are proceeding at a satisfactory pace, Culture Minister Evangelos Venizelos told Parliament yesterday...

Attiki Odos too costly, local authorities say

Less than a fortnight after a 30-kilometer (19-mile) section of the new Attiki Odos Athens ring road became fully operational, yesterday local authorities in the suburbs traversed by the highway complained...

IN BRIEF

Unionists call for further roadblocks, say minister misled them over summit : Thessaly cotton farmers are to resume protest action, unionists decided yesterday...

Orthodox, Roman Catholic leaders call for a spiritual, tolerant Europe : Archbishop Christodoulos and a high-ranking Vatican official, visiting Athens for talks on religious dialogue, agreed yesterday...

Missing brothers found : Coast guard officers yesterday found two brothers — who had been missing off the coast of Zakynthos since Sunday afternoon...

Bonds : Tax-free popular savings bonds, with a rate of 3.6 percent, will be offered to the public next week...

Smugglers convicted : A Thessaloniki court yesterday sentenced two Danes to six years in prison for smuggling 32 illegal immigrants into Greece...

Annan visit : United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan will visit Athens and Ankara on February 24 and 25...

Forged euros : Police in Veria, northern Greece were yesterday seeking to determine the origin of 20 forged 200-euro notes...

Anti-war rallies : Dozens of Thessaloniki citizens yesterday staged an anti-war demonstration in the city center...


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EDITORIAL

Continuous crime The crash of an emergency rescue helicopter into the Aegean Sea, the third such aircraft to crash in less than two years, has raised serious questions that must not be indefinitely held back by the usual bureaucratic tentacles. No one, of course, questions the need for a painstaking and thorough investigation, but it would be a grave mistake to use this as an excuse for bypassing the problem.

COMMENTARY

Free-riding Socialists New Democracy's decision to officially abstain from the anti-war rallies and rather to leave it with each conservative deputy's conscience to decide whether to join the demonstrations or not, invited critical and sarcastic remarks from the ruling Socialists. It should be noted here that both PASOK and ND are parties with a large catchment. In other words, they both seek to combine different and often divergent ideological positions.

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