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 Cyprus ready for talks at UN’s behest |
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| On the 29th anniversary of a coup by Greek Cypriots that prompted a Turkish invasion a few days later, President Tassos Papadopoulos yesterday stressed his government's readiness to hold reunification talks whenever UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan summons him.
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| Father Xeros refuses to take oath |
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| Father Triandafyllos Xeros, a Greek Orthodox priest, did not testify in the trial of three of his sons and a former daughter-in-law yesterday after refusing to swear on the Bible. The court, in Korydallos Prison, is hearing the case against 19 suspected members of the November 17 terrorist gang. Father Triandafyllos was to testify on behalf of his son Savvas, who was seriously injured by a bomb he was carrying in Piraeus on June 29...
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| Sources say Laliotis to sue WSJE |
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| Costas Laliotis, the former general secretary of PASOK who was replaced by Michalis Chrysochoidis earlier this month, is planning to sue the Wall Street Journal for a recent article suggesting he was identified with a host of evils, sources said yesterday.
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| Sewage clears, stench remains |
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| As residents of the island of Salamina and Piraeus's coastal district of Perama continued to be plagued by the stench of 25,000 accumulated tons of untreated sludge on the nearby islet of Psytalleia...
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| Dutch solar car Nuna... |
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A man examines the Dutch solar car Nuna outside Athens's Zappeion Hall yesterday...
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| Pioneering heart op for first time in Greece |
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| A 54-year-old man has become the first heart patient in Greece to be fitted with a device designed by scientists at NASA (a titanium inflow cannula) that will support the functioning of his own heart until a suitable donor organ is found.
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Legendary rock and roll...
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EDITORIAL |
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Campaign fireworks
Those who have been wondering about the government's sudden eagerness to bring about the much-hyped «modernization of our political system» will, perhaps, feel more enlightened following the remarks yesterday by government spokesman Christos Protopappas.
In view of Friday's expanded inner Cabinet meeting, Protopappas confirmed the government's intention to push for a new electoral law, along with other adjustments, and expressed the opinion that these changes will put the New Democracy opposition «in a very difficult position.» |
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COMMENTARY |
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Union sellout
DAKE, the New Democracy-supported teachers' union, finally won the presidency of the Federation of Secondary School Teachers (OLME) while PASK, the PASOK-supported union, won back, after two years, the presidency of the Federation of Primary School Teachers (DOE). Notably, Nikos Tsoulias, OLME's longstanding president, did not run this time, as he is to be a PASOK candidate in the coming elections.
Using union activity as a springboard toward a political career has been a common practice in the post-1974 period, particularly in the case of PASOK. Most crucially, this is one of the most fundamental reasons behind the degeneration and discrediting of the union movement in this country.
Representing the worker, the pensioner, the farmer and so on, union activity is assertive by nature and takes an opposition stance to the government of the time. |
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