He said that Greece was a big upset in the European Championship and such tournaments want such surprises. There is always a surprise-team that moves ahead. However, only the best teams play in the finals. If we fall, we will fall like heroes, said Mr. R ehhagel.

The Greek football players assure that they are not defeatist and will fight to win France, the current European football champion.

It is estimated that about 6,000 Greek football fans will cheer for the Greek national team in the Lisbon stadium where the most important match in the history of the Greek football will take place at 9:45pm this evening (Greek time).

Ankara will announce the reopening of the Theology School of Halki to US President George Bush during his visit to Turkey.

Athens has denied that Ankara has asked anything in return for the reopening of Halki.

Minister of Public Order Giorgos Voulgarakis stressed on the issue that armed guards will be allowed only for the protection of heads of states and clarified that the specific clause concerns the security escorts for Greek and foreign VIPS for whom there

is a special status in effect internationally.

Mr. Voulgarakis reiterated categorically that there will be no armed security escorts with the national Olympic teams which will be in Athens in August.

He also announced that people will be able to report anything suspicious during the Olympic Games by calling the telephone number 1014.

Speaking before the special parliamentary committee, Mr. Voulgarakis stated that NATO will monitor the airspace and will assist in the case of radio-biochemical threats.

NATO announced formally yesterday through its general secretary that it will assist Greece in its effort to host safe Olympic Games in the period of August 13-29.

She had worked for many newspapers and magazines like "TO ETHNOS" and "Epikerotita" and in theater productions making adaptations of children's theater plays, while she had also collaborated with great names in music and theater among them, music compose rs Mimis Plessas and Thanasis Polikandriotis.

Of the stocks trading today, 57 had gains and 250 had losses, while the value of 87 stocks remained unchanged.

The above announced Minister of Tourism Dimitris Avramopoulos addressing the Greek Journalists' Conference held for a 12th year in the north Aegean island of Samothraki.

The Tourist Ministry goal is to attract other visitors as well and not only the "fanatic" fans of the Olympic Games, who watch them every time they take place. Another goal is to boost the tourist sector to correspond to 35% of the GDP in the next decade

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