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Antenna News in English 041096Antenna Radio News in English Directory - Previous Article - Next ArticleFrom: Antenna Radio <http://www.antenna.gr> - email: antenna@compulink.grNews in English, of 04/10/1996TITLES
EVERTEvert, once again leader of the conservative partyMiltiadis Evert was reelected today as the president of the major opposition conservative party in Greece, "New Democracy". Evert received 103 votes and his contender, Giorgos Souflias, 84 votes. 3 votes found blank and one found invalid. Evert resinged from the presidency of " New Democracy" after he failed to win the national elections, on 22 September 1996. ECONOMYSevere ecomic measures mainly focused abolishing a number of tax breaks will be the remedy to a part of the budget's deficit.There are currently 800 tax breaks. The government is csidering cutting off 280 tax breaks, because they are excessive. The finance ministry is expected to tax the allocatis given to public sector employees and to cut off fifty per cent tax breaks for medical care expenses, tuiti fees and private insurance rates for workers with over 29 thousand dollars income per year. The government is also csidering to abolish tax breaks for people with high salaries. Meaning that people who make more than a certain amount would no lger be eligible for tax breaks everye used to get until now. Finance minister Yiannos Papantiou met with the Public Sector Employees Uni Thursday to discuss the new workers pay-roll. Papantiou didn't make any ccrete announcements, but promised the uni reps that increases the public sector employees wages will be a little higher than the inflati rates. The Uni is asking for the amount of about 740 dollars per mth be csidered as the lower mthly wage for the newly-appointed public sector employees. SIMITISPrime minister Kostas Simitis had successive meetings with his government members Thursday to promote the governmental work in several fields.The premier first met with the foreign ministry leadership to closely examine the country's positis, as they will be displayed in the European Summit to be held in Dublin, Ireland by Friday. Later in the day, Kostas Simitis discussed the Greek candidacy for holding the 2004 Olympics with Sports minister Andreas Fouras and Yianna Daskalaki-Angelopoulou, president of the committee to get the Olympics to Greece in 2004. Prime minister Kostas Simitis also met with president of parliament Apostolos Kaklamanis for inter-parliament procedure issues, and with envirment minister Kostas Laliotis in view of the examinati of the 1997 budget. DEFENDORYTwenty-eight countries from all over the world are participating in the 9th Internatial Cvential Systems for Natial Defence Exhibit, or "Defendory", which is being held these days in Piraeus.Opening the exhibiti, defence minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos stressed the need to support Greece's military industry. He said, "We are here today to support this highly important exhibit, which gives Greeks as well as foreign military industries the chance for financial cooperati with the global markets". Over six hundred stands exhibit the military industries new equipment. Amg them, there are 130 Greek stands, where the country's state and private industries propose their sophisticated defence machinery, which largely covers the needs of Greece's armed forces. MYTILINI LADYA strange story was brought to public attenti in the Aegean island of Mytilini, after the tragic death of a 75-year-old old woman, who lived the last years of her life collecting picking rags and recieving help from charities.EvanthIa Niania was burnt when the rags, she had collected, flared up by an electric stove. Niania came from a wealthy and high- society family of Mytilini, and everye the island was aware of her marriage to a wealthy man in the fifties; a marriage which lasted ly e night, as the groom left her taking away a tin pot full of gold coins. After this incident, EvanthIa decided to live withdrawn. However, after her death, several aspiring heirs showed up, including her husband, who appeared for the first time after so many years. Her will wasn't found, and everye believed it was burnt with her, last December...But, EvanthIa Niania hadn't said her last words. A notary submitted the hand-written will that Niania had given him in 1981, by which she left her fortune, an amount of about sixty thousand dollars, to her uncle. And if, at that moment, he had passed away, which IS the case, Niania is leaving this amount to charities. ANTENNA/FAMILYAlmost e mth ago we heard that Antenna's president Minos Kyriakou had come to the aid of a family living in desperate poverty. Antenna televisi had brought the plight of an 11-member family living in a wooden shed under a bridge in Chalkida to public attenti.Hundreds of Greeks have already phed in to make a deposit in the bank account set up by Mr. Kyriakou to help the family. Mr. Kyriakou himself made a deposit of 20 thousand dollars. Today, e mth later, the family managed to collect a large amount of mey to buy a three- bedroom apartment in Chalkida. But, they lack of another 12 thousand dollars to buy it. So, Antenna as well as the family is appealing to everye who can financially help the nine children and the husband of Maria Sourla, a man disabled by a stroke. Before Mr. Kyriakou opened the bank account, the family had nothing more to live than the family father's 100-dollar mthly pensi - that was about 10 dollars a mth for each family member. The Iian Bank account number is 090-317-00-639. © ANT1-Radio 1996Antenna Radio News in English Directory - Previous Article - Next Article |
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