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Games works to be ready at ‘last minute’ Main stadium roof slated for July 20

NATO yesterday agreed officially to provide assistance to Greece to help make the Athens 2004 Olympic Games as safe as possible.
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NATO to help with Olympic security
Brussels - The North Atlantic Council, NATO's top decision-making body, yesterday gave its official approval to Greece's request for assistance in protecting the Athens Olympics in a procedure that was a mere formality, as none of the 19 member states expressed any opposition.
Denktash to shun 4-party talks
As Greek, Turkish and United Nations officials in Athens discussed aspects of the UN peace blueprint on Cyprus yesterday in what was described as a «positive and constructive» mood, Turkish-Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash confirmed that he would abstain from a second round of talks on reunification.
6.3 quake hits Crete, no damage
A strong quake in the sea off Crete yesterday morning was felt throughout southern Greece but caused no injuries or damage to property.
Sweet tooth angers lawyer
A Cretan lawyer is proposing to sue a major Greek confectioner after what initially seemed like an unusually tough almond in his chocolate bar turned out to be a human tooth, a report said yesterday.
Long arm of Boras reaches out for coach
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A Swedish town has asked a debt-collecting agency to make Greek national basketball coach Yiannis Ioannidis pay a 4,000-crown (433-euro) fine for setting off an alarm by smoking, local radio reported yesterday.
IN BRIEF
Athens condemns fatal clashes between Serbs and Albanians : The Foreign Ministry yesterday «unequivocally condemned» violent clashes between Serbs and Albanians...
Three bodies thought to be those of migrants drowned in January sinking : The corpses of two men and one woman, discovered off the rocky islet of Petalia...
New heads for NBG, Emporiki : Panayiotis Arapoglou will be appointed as the new governor of the National Bank of Greece...
Salonica blast : Arsonists planted three homemade gas canister bombs outside a car showroom in Thessaloniki...
Serifis rebuffed : A Piraeus court yesterday turned down an appeal...
Car premiums : Ethniki General Insurance yesterday announced that its will be increasing...
Convict killed : A 50-year-old inmate of Corfu jail, released on Tuesday on an eight-day furlough, was yesterday found dead...
Hash haul : Police in Kastoria early yesterday morning seized 114 kilograms of hashish from a man who allegedly smuggled the drugs...
Athens fire : An 86-year-old woman escaped unscathed from a blaze...
Murderer 'unrepentant' : A Piraeus Misdemeanors Council yesterday rejected an appeal for conditional release by a physiotherapist who is serving two life sentences...

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EDITORIAL
Chaos and insolence
 Virtually all Olympic-related projects were left half-finished by PASOK's socialist government. Most of the venues and infrastructure projects are far behind schedule. The deadlines are fictitious or unfeasible. There will hardly be any time to perform safety checks or deal with any technical snags and unexpected problems.
COMMENTARY
Heading for a new dispute
 The Cyprus issue has reached a point where no solution can possibly please Nicosia (or Athens). With all lines of defense breached after 1974, the Athens-Nicosia diplomatic front can only accept a deal providing for a new state that bears no relation to a modern EU member country. Should a new, unified Cyprus emerge, it will be nothing more than a newfangled constitutional concoction by the great powers to create, not another modern and hopeful democracy, but a state that will serve the military needs...
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