Liberian Mayo Investment Corporation.

In statements after his testimony, Mr. Laliotis supported that the evidence he submitted, prove beyond a doubt that in 1989, New Democracy and its people, under the leadership of Mr. Mitsotakis, were connected to the Liberian company, while he asked for a fast and in depth investigation, as well as for the company's accounts to open.

Also, he mentioned that he will press charges against Mr. Mitsotakis, for libel. Mr. Mitsotakis has also sued Mr. Laliotis for libelous and insulting statements against him, which will be discussed in May 2022.

Former Prime Minister Kostantinos Mitsotakis, is expected to receive a subpoena in the next few days, in order to testify in the Mayo Investment Corporation case. As his office announced, Mr. Mitsotakis, through his attorney, asked to be called as a witn ess in the case.

The suspects on the other hand, stated that they are part of a touring group, which is making visits to military bases all over Europe, claiming that they have received invitations from the parties responsible for the specific facilities.

The Greek authorities are examining the photographs, as well as notebooks found in the possession of the suspects, which had information on five military bases in Greece.

According to Mr. Papantoniou, the possibility of Greece helping by transporting humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan by means of C-130 aircraft is being discussed.

The Minister of National Defense also said that nothing specific has been decided yet, and noted that Greece is still involved in discussions with the US, on the possible ways that Greece could further assist with the operations in Afghanistan.

"In any case, however, sending Greek troops into the war zone is not even a n issue", he underlined.

In statements after his meeting with the Deputy Secretary of Defense of Britain, Lord Bach, Mr. Papantoniou stressed that the Greek government is making all possible efforts on a national and international level to eradicate terrorism.

Mr. Papantoniou and Mr. Bach discussed military operations that have taken place for the eradication of international terrorism, issues of mutual military interest, and attempts for the arrest of November 17 members.

According to the research, the majority of rapes takes place at night in public places, while one out of every two, takes place in a village.

3 out of 10 women who were rape victims knew the perpetrator, while 4 out of 10 were foreign.

The aircraft is scheduled to take off from the "Eleftherios Venizelos" airport in Spata at 12:30, and the 139 passengers that were to leave for New York yesterday, but returned to Athens after the news of the crash in New York, will travel with today's f light.

In case of problems at the NYC airport, the Olympic Airways flight will land in Boston.

Among the issues to be discussed are illegal immigration, terrorism, drugs and organized crime.

"From what we have been informed of and I have had the chance to discuss with the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the US, Mr. Grosman, there is no further information on the incident. I gave my condolences, on the event which is sure to have had ma ny victims. So far there is no confirmation as to why the aircraft crashed", stated Mr. Papandreou.

"All of the delegation is fine. The Consul will get a chance to find out if there are any Greeks among the victims, something we hope no to be true", he underlined.

The decrease of the tax factor on non-imported businesses from 37,5% this year, to 30%, gradually, by 2004, and the decrease of the tax factor of imported businesses from 35% for 2001 incomes, to 33%-32,5% by 2002, and 30% by 2004, according to sources, is the scenario being discussed by the financial staff.

According to the same sources, part of the cost of the tax deductions could be covered by new taxes (taxing repos with 10%) or canceling various tax relieving factors (i.e. rent, study costs, etc.) for high income.

in smuggling.

According to the decision of the Council of Magistrate's Courts of Thessaloniki, it is Rossen Dimof, the General District Attorney of southern Bulgaria, and his wife Ilonka Karatodorova. As mentioned in the indictment, the couple opened a joint account i n a Thessaloniki bank - with deposits of $110.000 - with the other accused party, a Thessaloniki businessman, Giorgos Anthemidis, who is also involved in the smuggling of cigarettes and alcohol.

In the meantime, the island's coast guard have started an investigation to find the boat and the traffickers who in all probability brought the illegal immigrants to the island this morning.

The discussion will begin in January, using no precedent or previously determined facts, and the new regulations will come into effect in the parliamentary elections after the following ones.

Mr. Skandalidis stressed that the basic triptych of the regulations for a modern state, are, firstly, decentralization in the lowest possible level of its functions, its prompt adaptation to the information society, and thirdly, a public administration w ith goals and evaluation.

January 2002.

As Deputy Minister of Labor Lefteris Tziolas told the Macedonian Press Agency, through this program, the ministry of Labor will bring the Greek Manpower Employment Organization (OAED) and the Federal Foundation for Employment of Germany together, in an a ttempt to support unskilled young Greeks. It will begin in Nuremberg.

At the same time, the labor attache of Greece at the Munich Cosulate, will have direct cooperation at the offices of the of the Greek Community of Nuremberg with Greek immigrants working in industry.

The leader of the archeological mission, Mr. Haris Tzalas, stressed that the 8th mission of May-June 2002, will focus on that point. With this important find, the 7th excavational period of Mr. Tzalas' team in Alexandria ends on November 20.

It should be noted that the Greek Community of Alexandria is one of the main sponsors of the archeological mission.

The meetings of the Slovak businessmen with their Greek colleagues will take place in Thessaloniki next Tuesday.

The business mission is organized by the Slovak embassy and consulate trade offices and is under the auspices of Thessaloniki's Commerce and Industry Chamber.

In an interview with MPA, Mr. Sinodinos expressed satisfaction for the election results in Australia which are a vindication for John Howard and his policy on domestic and international issues.

He maintains close ties with the Greek community and has served as president of the Greek community in Canberra, where he lives for the past two decades. He was born and educated in Australia and he speaks Greek fluently. He is proud of his Greek origin and the town of Lixouri in the Ionian Sea island of Cephalonia from where his parents come.

On the Cyprus problem, he said that Australia is in favor of a solution that will be based on the UN decisions, while on the return of the Parthenon Marbles to Greece, he stressed that the Australian Prime Minister was going to raise the issue to his Bri tish counterpart in the Commonwealth summit meeting in Brisbane that was canceled due to the international situation.

He also referred to the signing of an agreement concerning the pensions of the Greek-Australians, who have returned to Greece, expressing the view that the Greek side should reach a compromise with Australia.

examples where the United States brought horrible people to power under the pretext of combating communism, adding that now the consequences can be seen.

Speaking about the course of cinema in the past decades he said that it has become difficult to make serious movies, adding that American cinema is a cinema of exploitation interested only in making profits, while creating a global imperialistic empire.

The above were stated by Culture Minister Evangelos Venizelos before the members of the educational affairs parliamentary committee, who were briefed by the responsible ministers on the course of the Olympic projects.

The Olympic projects can be constructed in time for the Athens 2004 Olympic Games and there is no reason for concern, stated Mr. Venizelos, adding that the Olympic projects' contractors have assured him on that.

Of the stocks trading today, 273 recorded gains and 56 had losses, while the value of 33 remained unchanged.

In the meeting were discussed issues of bilateral and international cooperation, while an emphasis was given to the European prospect of Croatia. A special reference was made to the strengthening of economic cooperation in southeastern Europe.

Mr. Hitiris stated that negotiations continue and the goal is to reach a solution that will satisfy both sides. This will be good for FYROM and the region in general, stated Mr. Hitiris.

When asked to comment on whether the decision on the FYROM name, that was reached in the political leaders council meeting presided over by the late Konstantinos Karamanlis, is in effect or another such meeting will take place, Mr. Hitiris stated that th e meeting was an informal one and added that is not imposed by the Constitution to hold such a meeting.

It is a work by Maria Mavrikiou that was completed after 9 years and is presented in Thessaloniki's 42nd International Film Festival.

One hundred fifty hours of film shot from 1992 until 2000 by Maria Mavrikiou, who visited every region of Albania with ethnic Greek population, were concentrated in 97 minutes by film editor Despo Maroulakou.

The film director underlined in a press conference today that the people there have not overcome the fear they had since the times of Emver Hodja stressing, however, that she does not want her film to be used for political expediency reasons.

In statements he made after the meeting, Mr. Paschalidis stressed that there is a need for the Stability Pact presence in the Balkans and the intensification of the reconstruction programs.

From his side, the Yugoslav diplomat praised the steps made by the Ministry of Macedonia-Thrace in the effort to strengthen cooperation with the neighboring regions and the stabilization of the Balkans in general. He stressed that the economic assistance

coming from abroad, the Stability Pact and the Greek Reconstruction Plan is of great importance for his country and added that Yugoslavia is waiting for the Greek parliament's approval in order to receive the much needed economic aid.

According to the newspaper "Utrinski Vesnik", of the 20 clothing companies active in the city, the 19 belong to businessmen from northern Greece, adding that they employ over 1.000 people.

The Prime Minister pointed out that everything that is being heard about a lack of coordination in the Olympic Games preparations has little to do with reality, while on the Greek-Turkish relations he commented that the statements made by the Turkish For eign Minister on the consequences of Cyprus' EU accession are unrealistic. He also reiterated that Cyprus' EU accession is not linked with the solution of the political problem.

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