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Retirement beats work Government expected to boost pensions, stall civil service raises In a bid to balance the need to support the lowest-income earners against the need to keep spending in check, the government appears to be preparing a compromise in which it will give public sector pensioners a generous increase of 4-5 percent while delaying raises for civil servants.

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Greeks stress own gains in war on terror

The government yesterday urged US Ambassador Thomas Miller to be careful in his comments regarding the war on domestic terrorism, in an apparent bid to appease testy members of the ruling PASOK party...

Sailing test event a success

Athens Regatta 2002, the first test event for the 2004 Athens Olympics, was completed yesterday with organizers professing satisfaction with the result.

Financial gain spurs most killers

The typical Greek murderer kills for reasons of financial gain and is at least acquainted with, if not related to the victim, according to research by a leading criminologist made public yesterday.

Fire downed Cypriot chopper

NICOSIA (AFP) - A helicopter crash that killed Cyprus's army and air force commanders and three other officers was caused by a fire that caused the aircraft to go out of control, the island's defense minister said yesterday.

Lesvos nurse’s murder claims are dismissed

An apparently mentally disturbed male nurse who claimed to have murdered a series of patients in his care at the Mytilene hospital on Lesvos cannot have been telling the truth, hospital sources said yesterday.

IN BRIEF

Emergency meeting after Lake Lagadas dries up : An emergency meeting was held yesterday in the town of Lagadas, 19 kilometers east of Thessaloniki...

Authorities say nearly 80 pct of flights on time in second quarter : Slightly fewer flights from the new Athens airport at Spata were delayed in the second quarter of this year...

Meeting on Cyprus, Turkey Prime Minister Costas Simitis met with Foreign Minister George Papandreou...

Flood aid A team of 15 firemen equipped with pumps and an amphibian vehicle left for Germany...

Leaks Greece’s Association of Judges and Prosecutors yesterday issued a statement...

Forgers Two people, including an Athens municipal employee, were charged yesterday...

Grazing murder An animal farmer from the area of Pella, in northern Greece, has been arrested...

Fatal stings A 47-year-old man from a village near Arta, in western Greece, died early yesterday...

Soccer diplomacy The coach of Turkey’s national soccer squad was quoted yesterday as energetically backing...


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Greece’s Theodoros Hadzitheodorou...
EDITORIAL

Our final chance The Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit in 1992 went down in history as the most attended but, at the same time, the most ineffective forum of its kind. This was in spite of an ambitious, agreed-upon program setting out measures to tackle environmental degradation and to boost sustainable development. Unfortunately, it is highly unlikely that next week's Earth Summit in Johannesburg will yield anything more than that. In their vast majority, the wealthy states seem to be caught up in a short-sighted perspective.

COMMENTARY

Belated sensitivities The sensitivity several leading Socialist figures displayed over the recent remarks by US Ambassador to Athens Thomas Miller - who used the first person plural to refer to the dismantling of terrorism - was belated and even incomprehensible. In 20 years of Socialist rule, PASOK never showed any particular zeal (also the case with the conservative governments that preceded it) in facing the task of eliminating terrorism - a task that Greece's political system has...

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