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Mutual arms cuts Greek, Turkish defense ministers brief each other on reduction The effort by Greece and Turkey to carry out mutual cuts in defense spending received a boost yesterday when Turkish Defense Minister Vecdi Gonul told his Greek counterpart, Spilios Spiliotopoulos, that Ankara had decided to slash $10 billion from its defense spending, chiefly through the scrapping of three arms programs.

FRONT PAGE NEWS

Tram to stay out of center for Olympics

After patiently enduring even worse traffic jams than usual for over a year because of the construction of the tram line in central Athens, Athenians learned yesterday that the tram will not go all the way to Syntagma Square...

Doping spat threatens ’04 soccer

PARIS (AFP) - Football may not be represented in the August Olympics unless an agreement is reached between the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and world football's governing body...

Sakis rocks TV viewers, stirs bishop

Greece's much-hyped entry in the Eurovision song contest may have come third, but Greeks proved champions in their collective effort to support pop heartthrob Sakis Rouvas...

10 convicted for jail drug deaths

A Piraeus court yesterday gave suspended jail sentences to the former governor of Korydallos Prison's women's section...

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat...

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat grins at Greek former javelin-throwing world record-woman...

Vouliagmeni beach off bounds due to Games

One of the capital's most popular paying beaches will be closed throughout the summer season...

IN BRIEF

Museums all over Greece will be open free of charge : Entry to museums all over the country - apart from those closed for refurbishment...

GDP up 4.1 percent in first quarter, NSS says : Greece's gross domestic product (GDP) increased by 4.1 percent in the first quarter of this year...

Works on Poseidonos, Kifissias : Traffic on coastal Poseidonos Avenue will be disrupted between Evryalis Street in Hellenikon and Yiannarou Street...

Taverna ruling : A series of illegally constructed taverna extensions in the small bay of Mikrolimano, Piraeus, must be demolished...

Museum closed : Thessaloniki's Archaeological Museum will be closed to the public from Thursday...

Drug haul : Officers from the Serres drugs squad yesterday arrested six people after confiscating more than 550 ecstasy pills...

Soccer arrests : A fan and a part-time employee of the AEK soccer team were arrested on Sunday...

Imvros fire : A 73-year-old resident of Imvros, one of the few ethnic Greeks still resident on the island...

Ship blaze : Firemen yesterday extinguished a blaze which broke out in a Panama-flagged cargo ship...


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Unleaded petrol sells...
EDITORIAL

Lessons from the past Oil prices struck a new record high yesterday, throwing international markets into turmoil. Having eclipsed the $40-per-barrel threshold in the United States, with European prices following suit, the specter of elevated oil prices once again looms over the economies of the West. The $10 to $15 per barrel price range of the 1997-1998 period, as well as OPEC's $22 to $28 a barrel level for crude oil are no more than a distant memory.

COMMENTARY

Complacent stereotypes It all came back to us. We dragged it out from our store of stereotypes to put an ideological spin on an event that belongs to the sphere of the market and spectacle. It all came back to us - that we are a «brother-less nation» (it matters little whether this was heard on a state channel or trash TV, as the state television networks treated the Eurovision song contest as a major national event). It all came back to us: the Cold War language, the Iron Curtain and the anti-Greek conspiracies - which are as obvious to us as the fact that the sun rises in the East. As Albania began giving the lower points to other countries...

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