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Group claims bombs Half of stadium roof in place; minor militant group rails at ’04 The western arch of the giant roof for the main Olympic stadium slid into its final position yesterday, marking a significant milestone in the countdown to the Games that will begin on August 13.

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Security on Karamanlis’s US agenda

Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis will discuss Olympic security, Greek-Turkish relations and the Cyprus issue when he meets with President George W. Bush in Washington next week. Karamanlis will leave Athens on Monday for a visit on which both sides seem to be investing hopes.

Civil service still fails to please

Despite several efforts at reform over the past two decades, Greeks still have a very poor opinion of the bureaucratic public administration system, according to a new Athens University survey.

Crucial road to be ready soon

A new highway junction at Faliron, expected to drastically cut the journey from Piraeus and southern Athens to the airport and the city's northern outskirts, will be delivered to the public at the beginning of July, the government pledged yesterday.

Times’ nocturnal stunt at stadium backfires

Two British journalists who set out to expose Olympic security lapses by sneaking into a major Athens venue on Wednesday night ended up at a local police station.

IN BRIEF

Employers and labor unions agree to gradual increases over next two years : Employers and private sector labor unions yesterday reached a two-year agreement...

Labor, Defense Ministry officials to check work safety measures : Labor Ministry inspectors are to join military officials in touring military sites across the country...

Deadline expires tomorrow : Attica residents living or working near Olympic venues have until tomorrow to submit their applications...

Spring over : Antonis Samaras yesterday announced the suspension of Political Spring...

Papadopoulos well : Cypriot President Tassos Papadopoulos returned to work yesterday...

Illegal immigrants : Coast guards on Samos yesterday detained 19 Afghan immigrants who had reached the island...

Keryneia arrives : A full-scale reconstruction of a third century BC Cypriot trading vessel is due to sail into Piraeus harbor...

Rapper charged : A Greek rap singer was charged with attempted murder and firearms offenses yesterday...

ELA trial : A witness in the trial of Revolutionary Popular Struggle (ELA) suspects...

Heroin haul : A 40-year-old man has been arrested in the Athens district of Kallithea in possession of five kilos of heroin...


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Brothel ban ‘to benefit mafia’
EDITORIAL

Consensus The signing of the two-year collective labor agreement by the General Confederation of Greek Labor (GSEE) and employers' organizations yesterday is alone a very positive development for Greece's economic and social domains. But it is also significant in another respect. The accord sets the conditions for peace on the industrial relations front during the post-Olympic Games period, which is expected to be tense even according to the most optimistic forecasts.

COMMENTARY

Torture vs idealism The real Iraq war began when virtually everyone thought it was over. It is not long since the Bush administration claimed that the Iraqi people welcomed troops as liberators, amid celebrations for their cakewalk in Iraq. It was the same people who were out to assure us that Iraq would be transformed into a democratic state, the way Germany or Japan were after World War II. Their vision is no more.

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