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PASOK’s French fear Jospin’s political demise is seen as fate waiting for Simitis

The week following the shocking results of the French presidential elections, in which extreme right-winger Jean-Marie Le Pen pushed Socialist Prime Minister Lionel Jospin out of the running, going into a run-off with incumbent Jacques Chirac, has been full of political ferment in Greece as well.
FRONT PAGE NEWS
Two spectators are silhouetted against a full moon...
Two spectators are silhouetted against a full moon during the AEK-Olympiakos Greek Cup final at Athens's Olympic Stadium on Saturday night.
Greek held for East Asia worker scam
Greece's Security Police fraud squad, acting on a warrant from Interpol, has arrested a man wanted for allegedly defrauding large numbers of workers from Cambodia, Indonesia and Thailand with false promises of jobs...
Ex-king tells Larry King of exile
The ex-king of Greece, Constantine, pulled a public relations coup over the weekend by appearing on CNN's Larry King Live show and telling one of television's top presenters the sorrow of exile.
An end to fake mufti convictions
The Supreme Court last week overturned a prison sentence given to a member of the Muslim minority who has repeatedly claimed he is a Mufti, or religious leader, it was reported on Saturday.
2004 chief hints at ‘blackmail’
Tensions between business interests who are pressing for a piece of the Olympic pie and the head of the Athens 2004 Organizing Committee broke out over the weekend, with Sunday newspapers carrying a statement attributed...
15-year-old held for neighbor’s murder
A 15-year-old boy was arrested Friday afternoon for the murder of a 68-year-old woman in her home in Vyronas, eastern Athens last week, police said Saturday. Laura Demenikioti's body was found Thursday night with two stab wounds to the heart.
IN BRIEF
Paraplegic dies after collision with bus : A paraplegic being rushed to a central Athens hospital on Saturday...
Chrysostomos fractures head after falling down stairs : Cypriot Archbishop Chrysostomos was in a stable condition yesterday...
Girl dead, father missing
A teenage girl found in a pool of blood at her home in Pelasgia on Saturday night...
Mountain deaths.
Two men were killed on Sunday after their jeep plunged into an 80-meter ravine...
Easter exodus.
As the first major wave of the Easter exodus began on Saturday...
Embezzlement trial.
The former managing director of a publishing company will be tried on charges of embezzling...
Toxic soda.
A multinational soft drinks manufacturer must pay 58,694 euros in compensation to a young woman...
THIS WEEK
MONDAY
Prime Minister Costas Simitis meets with Athens 2004 head Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki.
TUESDAY
PASOK communications committee, headed by Prime Minister Costas Simitis, meets.
WEDNESDAY
Labor Day. Shops, though, will be open, following the government’s decision to shift the May Day workers...
FRIDAY
Development Minister Akis Tsochadzopoulos in Santander, Spain, for a meeting of EU tourism ministers.


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Gold-medal winner Vlassis Maras of Greece...
EDITORIAL
Stymphalian birds
The intensification of the Athens 2004 Olympics-related projects and preparations has nourished, as was expected, excessive expectations among various strata of Greek society. The major event has been treated as a deux ex machina that is expected to boost the stock market index, eliminate the budget deficit, encourage market investment, stimulate the currently anemic business sector and even provide a tonic to the stagnant ruling majority.
COMMENTARY
New policy needed
The defeat of French socialist Prime Minister Lionel Jospin in the first round of presidential elections and the success of far rightist Jean-Marie Le Pen should be a cause for concern and for a re-examination of certain established political ideas - which have been labeled as reformist - that tend to undermine social cohesion. Instead, the government has tried to breathe new life into the concept of the dividing lines between the country's socialist and conservative groups.
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