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Irenaios further implicated He knew about land deals, claims former aide, while Vavilis says patriarch offered him $400,000

Patriarch Irenaios, the beleaguered head of the Greek Orthodox Jerusalem Patriarchate, came under increasing pressure yesterday after the publication of allegations that he offered to pay fugitive drugs smuggler Apostolos Vavilis a large sum of money to help him get elected and that he played a key role in the controversial leasing of Church land to Jewish investors.
FRONT PAGE NEWS
End of lifetime jobs at utilities
New employees at listed public utilities will no longer enjoy permanent status, Economy and Finance Minister Giorgos Alogoskoufis declared in an interview published in the Sunday edition of Apogevmatini newspaper.
FM happy with US trip results
Foreign Minister Petros Molyviatis will conclude his meetings with high UN and US officials today with a session...
Thanou is decided to run again
Sprinter Katerina Thanou said in an interview published yesterday that she wants to run again if she is cleared by the IAAF, the world athletics' governing body, of failing to attend three drug tests before the Athens Olympics last summer.
Anarchists rampage in Athens, Thessaloniki
Two separate groups, totaling over 150 youths, went on the rampage in Athens and Thessaloniki late Saturday night and early Sunday morning, damaging several vehicles and bank cash machines before being dispersed by riot police, who arrested one student. A mob of some 30 anarchists started throwing Molotov cocktails into garbage bins around Exarchia Square in central Athens just before 10 p.m. on Saturday, damaging five parked cars with sticks and stones.
IN BRIEF
Easier visa acquisition ahead of new flight connection, minister says : Measures will soon be implemented to make it easier...
Two dead, 5 injured in dawn crashes : Two people were killed and five seriously injured...
Cyprus talks? : Cyprus talks are to be relaunched after April 17 elections...
Migrants detained : Coast guards on Chios on Saturday detained 35 illegal immigrants...
Flight disruption : A Cyprus Airlines flight attendants' strike, due to start today...
THIS WEEK
Monday : Greek President Karolos Papoulias meets with his Albanian counterpart...
Tuesday : Shops in Larissa, Trikala and Karditsa prefectures in central Greece to remain closed...
Wednesday : National Economy and Finance Minister Giorgos Alogoskoufis presents Greece's revised Stability and Development Pact...
Thursday : EuroFor (European Research Forum on Migration and Ethnic Relations) conference...
Friday : Summer opening hours for stores and supermarkets begin...

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PM vows to fight graft
EDITORIAL
Mirrors of our ills
 Athens cannot be described as a ghetto in the narrow sense of the word. However, it does have certain areas with particular demographic characteristics and distinctive problems - where there are obvious trends toward marginalization and isolation, where mass unemployment is rife and where significant social pressures result from having a large percentage of its population taken up by immigrants.
COMMENTARY
A spirit of disengagement?
 When various «snipers» in the (primarily electronic) media were targeting Archbishop Christodoulos and other senior clerics with various accusations, they were doing so in the name of «purging» the Church. But what they actually accomplished was to erode the influence of a timeless pillar of the Greek nation, while also undermining, even if unintentionally, the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate in Jerusalem. During these contentious weeks, the government has stubbornly assumed the role of observer and allowed these media snipers to create the current, depressing climate...
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