Athens News Agency: News in English, 09-07-08

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[01] Athens Newspaper Headlines

[01] Athens Newspaper Headlines

The police surveillance tapes of the members of the crime ring behind shipowner Pericles Panagopoulos' abduction last January, of which 16 were recently arrested, and labor relations were the main front-page items in Athens' newspapers on Wednesday.

ADESMEFTOS TYPOS: "Investments for energy conservation - Bill introducing the subsidisation of building owners".

APOGEVMATINI: "10,000 euros per pupil the price for the Baccalaureate exam questions - The Greek professor in Geneva was getting rich by selling the exam questions and answers on the internet, was getting rich".

AVGHI: "Four-day (weekly) salary, on the pretext of the crisis".

AVRIANI: "With stolen trucks supplied by the Italian mafia, prominent sub-contractor Tromboukis (one of the two gang leaders of the abduction ring, together with an inmate in Trikala prison, P. Vlastos), the financial manager of the crime ring that organised kidnappings and carried out death contracts, took part in public works projects together with other big-time contractors".

ELEFTHEROTYPIA: "My hoe dug up antiquities - Case file and (surveillance) phone taps reveal the ring's activitieis", adding that, as a sub-contractor in public works projects, Tromboukis had discovered antiquities and sought Vlastos' assistance to sell them.

ESTIA: "Inconceivable mistakes with the taxes - The state pushing the citizens to tax evasion".

ETHNOS: "Vlastos was dreaming of escaping and fleeing to Seychelles - New revealing phone conversations".

KATHIMERINI: "War over the garbage - Bloody clashes in Grammatiko (Attica prefecture) over the planned construction landfill (XYTA)".

NIKI: "Four-day workweek and new layoffs - The government toeing the industrialists' policy line".

RIZOSPASTIS: "As of last night (Tuesday), strike for satisfactory collective labor agreements" by the federation of workers in the dairy, food and drinks industries.

TA NEA: "Banks settling borrowers' debts in exchange for mortgage of their homes".

TO VIMA: "Clashes in Grammatikos over the planned XYTA - Political games and local interests".

VRADYNI: "Record high base passing grades, but also upsets, in university entrance exams".

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