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PM pledges ‘total security’ Air defense missiles and bomb-detecting trucks added to Olympic umbrella The security net over the Athens Olympics tightened further yesterday as the Greek air force set up Patriot missile batteries as part of the effort to make the Greek capital impenetrable to any airborne threat. Greek warplanes will patrol the sky and NATO early warning AWACS planes will ensure that no rogue planes enter Greek air space.

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Credit growth worries bankers

Greek households are increasingly indebted, according to the latest monthly data released by the Bank of Greece yesterday. The data, updated to May, shows that credit expansion to households has accelerated. By contrast, credit expansion to corporations has slowed down.

Prosecutor: One ELA cell on trial

The five defendants in the trial of suspected members of the Revolutionary Popular Struggle (ELA) constitute the group's leader and the members of one of four cells, the court prosecutor said on the first day of his summation yesterday.

Ricomex trial ruling rouses ire

After a trial lasting four months, an Athens court yesterday handed down five-year suspended sentences to two of the four people accused in connection with the death of 39 people in a factory that collapsed near Athens in a 1999 earthquake.

Ankara presses EU on Cyprus

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey has reacted with dismay to the European Union's failure to allow direct trade with Turkish Cypriots despite promises made after they backed a UN plan to reunite Cyprus in an April referendum.

Washing wardens’ war on underwear

NICOSIA (Reuters) - Drying wet laundry in public will earn residents of Cyprus' capital Nicosia a fine later this year as authorities launch a drive to clean up the city's image, its mayor said yesterday.

IN BRIEF

Local authorities urged to review measures ahead of Olympics : The General Secretariat for Civil Defense yesterday sent an urgent circular to all local and regional authorities...

Ministry agrees to pay staff 'fairly' for working during the Games : All forms of public transport serving Attica should operate according to schedule during the Olympics...

Ambulance workers continue action : The National First Aid Center (EKAB) will continue operating on skeleton staff unless employees' demands for overdue overtime payment are met...

Tanker tips : The Kozani-Ioannina National Road was closed off for 15 hours yesterday after a truck carrying sulfuric acid overturned...

Fabulist : Foreign Ministry spokesman Giorgos Koumoutsakos said yesterday that a Belgian television news report alleging that...

Illegal immigrants : A group of 16 were detained on Chios yesterday, the Merchant Marine Ministry said...

Marine affairs : Merchant Marine Minister Manolis Kefaloyiannis yesterday met the Spanish and Turkish ambassadors...

Island rescue : A couple from Athens, who had been missing on Samothrace since Saturday night, were found yesterday by rescue workers...

Astir probe : Parliament yesterday received a file with the results of a prosecutor's investigation into whether any ministers from the previous government...


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EDITORIAL

A policy for tourism Tourism is often described as Greece's «heavy industry» making a substantial contribution to state revenues and employment. It naturally ranks high in every government's priorities. The decision by the New Democracy government to establish a Ministry of Tourism fulfilled an outstanding need at the administrative level, but the move is only a first step toward remedying the causes of the existing crisis.

COMMENTARY

New Democracy’s burden Greek politicians celebrate the 30th anniversary since the restoration of democracy, they rightly mock at the pitiful group of colonels - and they attempt to distort history by making no reference to the causes which brought about the collapse of the old order on April 21, 1967. The political system was disintegrating. The right-wing National Radical Union (ERE) was leaderless after Constantine Karamanlis left for Paris, the Center Union was mired in internal strife...

OPINION

Modernizing the past Passing outside the National Archaeological Museum on Patission Street, you can feel change in the air. Teams of workers feverishly labor away at the previously neglected museum gardens. The work has created a completely different setting for the neoclassical building which now appears even more majestic than before. And, although ongoing renovation of the museum may not be finished in time for the Olympics, one thing is certain - works under way across the entire city are now on a high-speed route.

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