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PM races against time Difficult policy issues must be resolved by early summer, close aide warns Prime Minister Costas Simitis is looking for a way out of the crisis once again affecting his government and that way, according to a close aide, is through concrete policy achievements.

FRONT PAGE NEWS

No talks with Turkey soon, minister says

There can be no long-lasting improvement in Greek-Turkish relations while the Cyprus issue is still unresolved and the Turks keep raising issues over the Aegean Sea, Defense Minister Yiannos Papantoniou told Kathimerini in an interview published yesterday.

Conflicting views on premier-to-be

It seems a difficult choice. Costas Simitis is the ideal leader for Greece. But opposition chief Costas Karamanlis is best suited to be the country's next prime minister. And yet, Foreign Minister George Papandreou would really be better suited to the job than the conservative leader...

Potholed road gets boy 5 mln for bike fall

A seven-year-old boy who sustained head injuries and permanently impaired hearing when he fell from his bicycle after it foundered on a pothole is to receive 5 million drachmas (14,673 euros) in state compensation, the Council of State ruled in a decision made public yesterday.

Loutraki alert for suicidal gambler

Firemen and police in the seaside resort town of Loutraki, near Corinth, are patrolling outside the local casino on the lookout for an Athens businessman who has threatened to set himself on fire unless the establishment returns a portion of his losses.

In first round, doctors lose second state job

With the hearing on the more crucial matter of a new law forcing university doctors to choose between private practice or state employment pending, a high court has upheld an older ban on the same category of doctors holding a second public-sector job.

IN BRIEF

Council of State said to reject appeal : An appeal against the construction of an indoor sports hall next to a 10th-century Byzantine church in Athens has been rejected...

Radioactive box. A box containing a radioactive isotope of iridium — stolen from a work site in Larissa — was recovered on Saturday...

Zakynthos quake. A strong undersea quake measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale took place south of the Strofades islets near the Ionian island of Zakynthos...

Phone bills. Local and long-distance fixed-line calls are 11 and 23 percent cheape...

THIS WEEK

MONDAY ForeigMinister George Papandreou travels to Brussels for a meeting of EU foreigaffairs ministers.

WEDNESDAY Prime Minister Costas Simitis travels to Brussels for talks with EuropeaCommissioPresident Romano Prodi.

THURSDAY The Greek Communist Party (KKE) organizes nationwide protest rallies against recent labor and health sector reforms.

FRIDAY Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Security Rovertos Spyropoulos begins talks with the boards of social security funds.

SATURDAY President Costis Stephanopoulos pays aofficial visit to Damascus, Syria


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TODAY'S PHOTO

Protesting cotton farmers in Thessaly... Protesting cotton farmers in Thessaly lined up their tractors on Saturday on a roadside near the town of Almyros, in the Volos region in Central Greece, as Prime Minister Costas Simitis toured the area.

COMMENTARY

PM at bay again Last May, the social security controversy's invasion of Greek political life shook the government to its foundations, forcing it to beat an undignified retreat on the issue. In an attempt to regain lost morale, Prime Minister Costas Simitis called an early party congress in October and reshuffled his Cabinet in a move that transferred Labor Minister Tassos Yiannitsis...

EDITORIAL

Last chance Anyone still entertaining illusions that Prime Minister Costas Simitis's rout of his rivals within the ruling PASOK at its last congress and the subsequent government shake-up would open the way for more sweeping reforms will have to make a reassessment. The crisis provoked by a memorandum signed by 45 PASOK parliamentary deputies has caused the government majority to shrink back...

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