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Joint security for 2004 Athens to request AWACS; cooperates with Balkans, Arab states NATO forces will not be involved in providing security for the Athens 2004 Olympics but Greece will be cooperating with foreign countries and foreign services in order to secure the necessary means to protect the Games, Defense Minister Yiannos Papantoniou said yesterday.

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Central bank warns about public debt

Presenting the central bank's interim report on the economy, Bank of Greece Governor Nicholas Garganas yesterday issued a stern warning over the public debt's high level.

Calls for probe on Thessaloniki 5

The government and judicial authorities came under renewed domestic and international pressure yesterday to grant bail to seven men detained for over five months pending trial for participation in the June 21 anti-EU riots in Thessaloniki. Five of the suspects are in a near-critical state after weeks on hunger strike.

Would-be surgeons get the ax

A whopping 94 percent of all graduates in medicine from foreign universities who sought to have their degrees recognized in Greece have failed to get a pass mark, under a new exam system adopted following a mark-rigging scandal in August.

Graverobbers’ loot repatriated

An important group of Greek antiquities, illegally excavated by graverobbers in the Peloponnese and smuggled out of the country, is to be returned from Germany today, following a four-year-long legal battle.

Greeks, Turks join to rescue migrants

Dozens of illegal immigrants were rescued from a leaking boat in Turkey's territorial waters following a joint operation yesterday morning by the Greek and Turkish coast guards in the eastern Aegean.

IN BRIEF

Athens cabbie arrested for string of muggings inside his vehicle : A 23-year-old taxi driver has been arrested on suspicion of robbing at least three customers...

Strong 4.5 tremor strikes southern coast less than a day after 5.2 quake : An undersea tremor, measuring 4.5 on the Richter scale, occurred off Tympaki...

Okana reports significant drop : Deaths from drug abuse have dropped by 34 percent in Athens and by 31 percent in Thessaloniki...

Rogge visit : Athens Mayor Dora Bakoyianni yesterday briefed International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge...

Tourist coaches : Strike action due to put the brakes on some 5,000 for three days from today was called off yesterday...

Privacy violation : Greece’s privacy watchdog, the Authority for the Protection of Personal Data, yesterday fined EFG...

Traffic disruptions : There will be disruptions to traffic at the junction of Vouliagmenis Avenue and Kallirois Street...

Troublesome son : An Athens court yesterday gave a five-month jail sentence, suspended for three years, to the 23-year-old son of a former New Democracy MP...

Ekali blast : The home of a former employee of Intrasoft software firm in the northern Athens suburb of Ekali was targeted...

US offices : The US Embassy in Athens and all US government offices in Greece will be closed tomorrow...


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EDITORIAL

Olympic security The savage terrorist attacks in Istanbul have catapulted the issue of next year's Olympic Games security to center stage. In fact, this aspect had never really been forgotten. Greece has in recent years come under incessant international pressure on this matter, both from the International Olympic Committee and from assorted other security merchants and counterterrorism agencies in the United States.

COMMENTARY

Vociferous silence Of the 16 dailies published in Athens, Kathimerini's Greek edition was the only one to lead today with Costas Karamanlis's commitment that a conservative government will end the legal framework which is responsible for perpetuating political and business entanglement in Greece. Of the other newspapers, only three (all pro-New Democracy dailies) reported his remarks on their front page. Most of the electronic media similarly downgraded the story. Was it a mistake in the rating of news stories? An accidental underrating? Or were Karamanlis's comments really not worth highlighting? Collective mistakes and omissions are a rarity in the press.

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