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ND set for first vote Karamanlis and Papandreou spar during three-day debate Parliament will vote at midnight on whether to give Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis's New Democracy government a vote of confidence.

FRONT PAGE NEWS

Critical week for Cyprus’s future opens

After 30 years of division and innumerable efforts to end this, a crucial week begins for Cyprus.

No roof for Olympic pool

Organizers have decided to scrap the construction of a roof over the Olympic Games' main swimming pool due to planning delays, a major change to the Games' venue as time runs out before they start.

Tsovolas pulls plug on party

Dimitris Tsovolas, a former PASOK minister who formed his own splinter group in 1995, has decided to suspend operations of the Democratic Social Movement (DIKKI) after it failed to get into Parliament for a second, consecutive time.

Kosovo ‘needs God’s help’

Archbishop Christodoulos yesterday denounced the «ethnic cleansing» of Serbs in Kosovo and appealed for divine intervention for peace in the province, remarking that military forces could do little to combat «an evil that weapons cannot destroy.»

Fire forces passenger ferry to return to Italy

A refrigerated truck caught fire in the garage of a passenger ferry traveling between Italy and Greece late on Friday night, forcing the ship to return to Italy.

IN BRIEF

Three men found deep underground : Rescue workers yesterday afternoon located three explorers in a cave above Lake Vouliagmeni...

Bomb hoax : An Olympic Airlines passenger plane en route to Johannesburg returned to Athens shortly before 1.30 a.m. yesterday...

Anti-war rallies : Thousands of Athenians joined a rally in the city center on Saturday to protest against the Iraq war...


THIS WEEK

Monday : Vote of confidence in Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis's New Democracy government to begin at midnight after three-day debate...

Tuesday : Representatives of Cyprus's two communities, Greece and Turkey gather in Lucerne, Switzerland, to continue UN-mediated efforts to reunify Cyprus...

Wednesday : New round of UN-mediated Cyprus talks begins at Buergenstock, near Lucerne, Switzerland...

Thursday : Greece's national day. A public holiday...

Sunday : PM Karamanlis and his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to join talks on Cyprus issue...


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No excuses for unfinished museum Athens sought and won the right to host the Olympic Games on the basis of the inarguable premise that it was here in Greece that the Olympic idea was born, and where it was also later revived. The crowds of visitors and even greater television audiences would have the opportunity to see the birthplace of Western civilization and perhaps get another perspective on the Olympic ideal.

COMMENTARY

Now for the hard part Any new government's grace period depends chiefly on three factors: the magnitude of its electoral victory, the post-electoral condition of its rival party, and the degree of difficulty of its governing task. The New Democracy government clearly has only to gain from the first two factors, with its 5 percent win over a PASOK party which now appears to be entering a phase...

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