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Cypriot seesaw in NY Both sides agree to referenda on Annan plan only after progress

The future of negotiations aimed at reuniting Cyprus hung in the balance last night, as United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan waited to see whether President Tassos Papadopoulos and Turkish-Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash would agree to his condition that his blueprint was the basis for a solution.
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PASOK puts newcomers in prime slots
PASOK, under new leader George Papandreou, kept piling on the surprises yesterday, opening its door to Mimis Androulakis, a former Communist Party member who played a leading role in the indictment by Parliament of PASOK founder Andreas Papandreou in 1989.
MEPs pass bill on private colleges
In what threatens to prove a considerable embarrassment to Athens, the European Parliament yesterday approved amendments by two opposition New Democracy MEPs that recognizes as valid degrees issued by Greek private colleges collaborating with European universities.
Marathon project in trouble
In the face of significant delays in the completion of a crucial Olympics-related road project in eastern Attica, the government has decided to replace the current contractor early next week, sources told Kathimerini yesterday.
Porn site cuts close to home
A 30-year old Athenian got more than he bargained for when, surfing an Internet porn site, he came across a video of his wife having sex with her lover. The disillusioned husband notified the police, who arrested a young man on charges of running the website that functioned as a club for exhibitionists.
Turks in turmoil over statue of ‘gay Greek’
ISTANBUL (AFP) - Battle lines are drawn in the southern Turkish resort town of Antalya, with residents divided over whether town founder Attalus II Philadelphus was homosexual and whether a statue should be raised in his honor.
IN BRIEF
PPC technician held for supplying obscene photos over Internet : A 33-year-old computer technician for the Public Power Corporation, who allegedly supplied pictures of nude children to a Norwegian porn site from his office in Athens, has been arrested...
Court orders PPC to pay 9,000 euros in damages to two firemen : A Kozani court yesterday ordered the Public Power Corporation to pay 9,000 euros...
Burglars take computer hard drives : Unidentified burglars broke into the court houses of the northern Peloponnesian town of Aigion...
Factory fire : A total of 45 of the 80 barrels of pesticides outside a disused factory in Thessaloniki were «affected»...
Food safety : The National Food Inspection Agency (EFET) has «issued recommendations» to four out of 10 restaurants...
OA strike : Unionists representing Olympic Airlines' striking flight attendants were expected late yesterday to end their 75-day strike...
Gyms : Consumer organization EKPOIZO said yesterday that it will file a collective suit against gym chains Universal and Dynamic Life for violation of the rights of consumers...
Falcon accident : The pilot of a government jet involved in a freak accident over Romania in 1999, which caused the deaths of a deputy minister and six other people, appeared in court yesterday...
Gas stations : Synaspismos Left Coalition Euro MP Michalis Papayiannakis yesterday asked the European Commission to determine whether Greece has made any progress...


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EDITORIAL
Shock to the party
Officials and declared followers of PASOK are in a state of political shock. To them, Stefanos Manos and Andreas Andrianopoulos until now personified absolute evil. Even those seeking excuses to justify the decision of their new leader are finding it hard to welcome the high priests of neoliberalism into the socialist camp. PASOK's other two transfers, both of whom share a communist background, are not much easier to swallow.
COMMENTARY
Sleeping with the enemy
It is stunning to see how PASOK's senior cadres have reacted to developments inside their party from the day Prime Minister Costas Simitis decided to defenestrate former party secretary Costas Laliotis, to the day their newly-anointed chairman, George Papandreou, brought former conservative ministers Stefanos Manos and Andreas Andrianopoulos into the Socialist camp. PASOK supposedly has a number of cadres with strong personalities and long ministerial experience who enjoy the backing of the party base and who can guarantee a successful course for a moderate, European-type social democratic party. These cadres supposedly make up the core of a party that claims to oppose the neoliberal platform...
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