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Antenna News in English 180996Antenna Radio News in English Directory - Previous Article - Next ArticleFrom: Antenna Radio <http://www.antenna.gr> - email: antenna@compulink.grNews in English, of 18/09/1996TITLES
PAPADELIS/LATESTAs we heard yesterday, deputy health minister Franglinos Papadelis was hit by a sudden and heavy stroke during his pre-election campaign. Today, twenty four hours after the operation which he underwent, his doctors expressed a temperate optimism on his health condition.His health condition remains critical, but stable. Doctors say they will wait until the next few days to see whether Papadelis is out of danger. Premier Kostas Simitis, as well as several MPs, visited Papadelis at the General State Hospital in Athens today to express their wishes for quick recovery. SIMITISFive days before the elections, prime minister Kostas Simitis gave a TV interview Monday night. Simitis said Pasok will surely win September 22nd's elections.The premier strongly attacked New Democracy and its leader Miltiades Evert, saying he doesn't have any specific programme or positions. He rejected once again the proposal made by Evert for another televised debate, with the participation of all parties, stressing that personal disputes are not useful, while the people need an essential dialogue. Referring to Pasok's economy programme, the prime minister said "there won't be any new taxes imposed", if his party wins the elections. He also talked about the so-called "objective criteria", promising he will abolish them as soon as the Finance ministry is necessarily equipped to change this method of restricting the tax evasion. Those unpopular tax rules which tax people according to things like shop size, rather than on declared income. Kostas Simitis also said that on Sunday, the Greek people must choose which government they want, quote, "between a government of progress and a government of conservatism". Meanwhile, everyone in Pasok's headquarters is preparing for the party's last pre-election big rally in Athens Friday night. EVERTWe heard there that Pasok will hold its last pre- election rally in Athens. But, as we heard yesterday, New Democracy leader Miltiades Evert decided not to carry out his party's last big rally. Evert will give an open press conference instead on Thursday afternoon, willing to give Greek voters the chance to watch a real dialogue between him and the journalists.The day after the prime minister's TV interview, New Democracy spokesman Prokopis Pavlopoulos commented that "With that interview, Mr. Simitis gave the Greek people once again the chance to understand why, and especially under the responsibility of whom, Greece has been brought to today's situation, in regards to its national issues, its relations with the European Union and its economy". Monday night, New Democracy leader held a speech in Elefsina, just outside Athens. He invited once again the prime minister to a new TV debate, and called the greek people to, quote, "bring Greece out of its misery and its crisis on Sunday, the day of the elections". ELECTIONSThe rest of the parties continue their pre-election campaign with tours and rallies all over Greece. Political Spring leader Antonis Samaras will hold his party's big rally in Kalamata, Peloponese, on Wednesday night.The Communist party ended its pre-election campaign with a rally in downtown Athens, while the party's former leader Harilaos Florakis, in his speech Monday in Patra, called Greek voters not to choose a blank or an invalid vote, but to fight against the two-parties scheme, by supporting his party. Left Coalition leader Nikos Konstantopoulos is touring in the island of Mytilini, while Monday night he held his party's last pre-election big rally downtown Athens. CYPRUSMaria Isaak, the widow of Tassos Isaak, who was murdered by a Turkish mob in Cyprus's neutral zone a month ago, gave birth to a healthy girl at the town of Paralimni, where her husband was buried on August 18th.The daughter of Maria and Tassos will never see her father, who at the age of 24 years was beaten to death by a Turkish mob in the island's buffer zone. Isaak and other Greek-Cypriots were peacefully protesting the ongoing Turkish military occupation of north Cyprus. The demonstration had been led by motorcyclists from around Europe, demanding right of free passage into the occupied territory. Isaak's daughter will be given the name of "Anastasia", and when she'll grow up, she will find out about her father, a heroe, who was sacrified for the "AnAstassi", or the "Resurrection", of Cyprus. One day after Isaak's funeral, prime minister Kostas Simitis and foreign minister Theodoros Pangalos visited his family. Simitis had said then, "The sacrifices for our country, for our freedom are never wasted". A few days later, New Democracy leader Miltiades Evert also paid tribute to Isaak's family at Paralimni. He told Tassos's wife, "Your child will be forever proud of its father. And this will not be only your child, but the child of all of the Greeks". Interim spokesman Dimitris Konstas announced Tuesday that the government which will be formed after the elections, will be the godparent of Isaak's daughter. Greece's ambassador in Cyprus, Alexandros Sandis, sent Maria Isaak a congratulations telegram for the birth of her child, a birth, quote, "that smoothens the pain of all of us for the coward murder of her father, a heroe". Meanwhile, it seems that Turkish-Cypriots who disagree over their leader's, Rauf Denktash, policy, disappear in a mysterious way. We heard recently about the murder of a Kurdish soldier at a sentry post along the island's neutral zone near the village of Acheritou, across from territory under British command. Turkish-Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash had said then that the shootings had been in reprisal for the deaths of the two Greek- Cypriots, Tassos Isaak and Solomos Solomou, who were killed by the Turks. The British authorities said the shots fired at the Turks, came from within Turkish-occupied territory, not from the Greek- Cypriot side. One week after these shootings, a Kurdish daily which is being published in Germany, reports that another soldier of Kurdish origin was murdered in the Turkish-occupied territory near Nicosia in August 19th. The Turkish-Cypriot authorities informed his family that their son killed himself, but his mother accused them for murdering him. UNIVERSITIESThe Education ministry announced on Tuesday that over three thousand new students will see their names listed at their schools, most probably within this week.The education minister had sent a note to the university deans, asking them to tell him how many additional students their institutions could take in this year. Although several deans gave a negative reply saying one week was too short to examine how many more students the universities can hold. The enrolment of the new students will start in September 25th. The education ministry promised that every higher education institution would get additional money for each additional student it takes in. The education minister's goal is to get a 30 per cent increase in enrolment until 1999. BASKETBALLThe first division basketball Championships A-1, opened with a great game between the teams of Aris and Paok in Thessaloniki Monday night.Aris beat Paok with an easy 73-62, with Charles Sakleford and Jose Pikoulin Ortith being the top- scorers of the winning team. Antenna television exclusively live broadcasted the game, and it will continue doing so for all of the basketball games for division A-1 championships, for the next two years. © ANT1-Radio 1996Antenna Radio News in English Directory - Previous Article - Next Article |
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