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New pollution worries Athenians exposed to high levels of benzene, airborne particles While Athens has to a large extent got rid of the brownish-gray smog that smothered much of the city center during the 1980s, a new and potentially more dangerous generation of airborne pollution is clogging up Athenians' lungs, according to the latest government figures made public yesterday.

FRONT PAGE NEWS

Military to raise fatal helicopter

Top Defense and Development ministry officials yesterday gave the go-ahead for a costly, arduous operation to raise from a deep part of the Aegean an army helicopter that crashed on September 11, killing all 17 people on board.

Tzekos says sprinters clean

Christos Tzekos, coach of top sprinters Costas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou who were forced to withdraw from the Athens Olympics, testified yesterday before prosecutors...

Dark skin: ‘Chechen terrorist’

LARNACA (AP) - An uproar on a Moscow-bound Cyprus Airways plane yesterday delayed the flight three hours and forced a change in travel plans for three Russians suspected by fellow passengers of being Chechen terrorists because of their skin tone, an airline spokesman said.

No car ban angers Greens

Environmentalists attacked the government yesterday for not taking any action to ban cars from city centers...

Coast guards to face Samina ferry charges

A council of Piraeus Misdemeanor Court judges yesterday ruled that the former coast guard chief and five officers should face criminal charges in connection with the Express Samina ferry disaster four years ago, which resulted in the death of 80 passengers.

IN BRIEF

Watchdog says water fountains may contain high cadmium levels : After conducting tests, the Hellenic Food Authority (EFET) yesterday called on approximately 100,000 owners...

Victim said Albanian attacked him over girl, not because of football : An Albanian man charged with injuring two Greeks with a broken bottle...

Dead rats on Thessaloniki coast : A special ship was disinfecting and clearing up part of the Thessaloniki coastline yesterday...

Leopard claims : A lower court in Hamburg, Germany, has cleared former Defense Minister Akis Tsochadzopoulos...

Smuggler : An 18-year-old Afghan was sentenced to 13 months and 10 days in jail yesterday...

Psomiadis cleared : A Thessaloniki appeals court yesterday found businessman Makis Psomiadis innocent...

Fans punished : A Thessaloniki court yesterday handed down 12-month suspended jail sentences...

School's out : Teaching unions claimed yesterday there is a shortage of 4,000 teachers in high schools...

Greek wanted : A Greek is one of four people who are the subject of criminal proceedings launched yesterday...


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Jeffrey Adams of Canada...
EDITORIAL

New kind of smog Reports that Athens's atmospheric pollution has been decreasing in recent years appear to have been mistaken, according the results of the annual report by the Environment Ministry's environmental quality department, accompanied by statements from officials and experts. The choking fumes of the 1980s are a thing of the past as a result of steps taken to improve the quality of gasoline and heating fuel that greatly reduced levels of carbon dioxide, sulphur dioxide and lead in the atmosphere.

COMMENTARY

‘Back to the roots’ again Tradition is neither a single and absolute entity nor are all «roots» strong and fertile. When we invoke the past, we are not invoking its «authenticity» (which is usually indiscernible) but its interpretative and ideological elements in order to give it new form. Interpretations that claim to be unerring or divinely inspired are nothing but a manipulation of an accomplished fact, since they are an attempt to rearrange the past and fit it into a particular theory devoid of historical accuracy. The old adage referring to the «Greek Christian spirit»...

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