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Defense deal queried Anti-aircraft system brought no benefits; possible link to 2 deaths Benefits worth $73 million in investments, tied to Greece's purchase in 1999 of a Russian Tor-M1 short-range anti-aircraft system, have still not arrived, sparking a judicial investigation in Russia, according to a question tabled in Parliament yesterday.

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IOC, Greeks worry over transport

With the International Olympic Committee's inspection team due in Athens tomorrow, IOC and Greek officials are expressing concern over delays in the tram and suburban railway projects that are intended to serve visitors to the Athens 2004 Games.

Anavyssos villa plot thickens

Deputy Finance Minister Apostolos Fotiadis yesterday accused a former ministry official, who killed herself nine days ago in the aftermath of a controversial operation to knock down illegal sections of seaside Attica villas, of having broken the law in rescinding demolition orders.

Turkish FM in first visit to Athens

In his first official visit to Greece today, Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul will be briefed on the progress of the country's Olympics preparations and chided on Greek air space violations by Turkish military aircraft, Athens said yesterday.

Armed forces in eastern shift

Some 14 years after the Iron Curtain collapsed, Greece is proposing to shift the focus of its army dispositions away from the northern and western borders and to the east, the government said yesterday.

The policemen’s union chief...

The policemen's union chief, Demetris Kyriazidis (c-l), leading a protest for more benefits by fellow officers...

Cyprus ready for UN talks, president says

NICOSIA (Reuters) - Cypriot President Tassos Papadopoulos said yesterday his country was ready to return any time to UN talks to end the island's division.

IN BRIEF

Athens cabbies announce new protest for Thursday, Friday : Athens taxi drivers decided yesterday to hold a 48-hour strike on Thursday and Friday...

Simitis keeps mum on poll date, briefs Stephanopoulos on economy : Prime Minister Costas Simitis yesterday briefed President Costis Stephanopoulos on the state of the economy as well as on other domestic and foreign affairs...

Drunk driver ‘had problems’ : A school bus driver was arrested in eastern Attica yesterday morning for drunk driving, on his way to pick up children...

Matricide : An apparently mentally disturbed young man was arrested in the northern town of Serres yesterday on suspicion of having killed his elderly mother...

Seamen back : The five seamen from a Greek fishing trawler who had been arrested by Turkish coast guard in international waters southeast of the Zourafa islet in the northeastern Aegean returned...

Train hits car : A train crashed into a car that had tried to run a level crossing on the outskirts of Veria in northern Greece yesterday after the bars had come down...

Weston : The US State Department envoy for Cyprus, Thomas Weston, yesterday discussed efforts to achieve the reunification of Cyprus...

Quake : A minor earththat registered 4.2 on the Richter scale occurred in the area of Neapolis in eastern Crete yesterday...

Power cut : Syntagma and Kaningos squares as well as parts of Academias St in central Athens were left in the dark for up to quarter of an hour...


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Six days into a strike...
EDITORIAL

Wanted: Clean deals The general director of a Russian defense contractor which conducted an investigation into the embezzlement of tens of billions of dollars from arms sales to Greece and his closest associate in that inquiry were assassinated on the same day in Moscow. The $73 million in offsets that the Russian contractors were due to send to Greece still had not been received after four years. No one expressed any concern over the delay.

COMMENTARY

Hot air We did not need the Simitis-Blair Parthenon Marbles exchange to realize how so-called national issues are manipulated for cynical partisan purposes. The fact that the Cyprus issue - an issue whose national character is clearer than that of the request for the return of the Parthenon Marbles - has in the post-1974 period been used as a pretext for holding early elections, only to be forgotten the day after, should be enough. Besides, our parties have identified improvements in the education and health sectors as national issues as well but this has barely had any effect on their attitude. In describing the 2004 Games, the political parties have not been limited to wielding the «national issue» label, but have gone so far as to honor the event with the more heavy sounding «national vision» or «national wager.»

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