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Macedonian Press Agency: News in English, 99-08-19

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From: The Macedonian Press Agency at http://www.mpa.gr and http://www.hri.org/MPA.


MACEDONIAN PRESS AGENCY NEWS IN ENGLISH
Thessaloniki, August 19, 1999

SECTIONS

  • [A] NATIONAL NEWS
  • [B] INTERNATIONAL NEWS

  • NEWS HEADLINES

    [A] NATIONAL NEWS

  • [01] GREEK PM TO MEET WITH EDUCATION MINISTER TODAY
  • [02] RISING OIL PRICES WON'T REACH CONSUMERS, MINISTRY ANNOUNCES
  • [03] TEMPERATURES EXPECTED TO RISE AGAIN THROUGHOUT THE STATE
  • [B] INTERNATIONAL NEWS

  • [04] DEATH TOLL RISES IN TURKEY: OVER 4,000 KILLED BY EARTHQUAKE
  • [05] MASSIVE ANTI-GOVERNMENT DEMONSTRATION HELD IN BELGRADE
  • [06] BRITISH AND FRENCH PRESS SALUTE GREECE'S AID TO TURKEY
  • [07] TURKEY QUAKE DAMAGES 400 TIMES GREATER THAN HIROSHIMA RUIN

  • NEWS IN DETAIL

    [A] NATIONAL NEWS

    [01] GREEK PM TO MEET WITH EDUCATION MINISTER TODAY

    Prime Minister Costas Simitis continues his series of contacts with party and government officials, while he is expected to meet with Education Minister Gerasimos Arsenis today.

    Messrs. Simitis and Arsenis are to discuss matters pertaining to the school sector and will examine ways to prevent the hurdles and mobilizations that usually mark the start of the new academic year.

    In his meeting with the secretary of the ruling PASOK party's central committee Costas Skandalides, it was decided that the party's conference to celebrate PASOK's 25th anniversary will be held on September 11.

    On Friday, the Premier will chair a cabinet meeting in light of his imminent visit to Albania, August 24.

    [02] RISING OIL PRICES WON'T REACH CONSUMERS, MINISTRY ANNOUNCES

    Greece's Development Minister Evangelos Venizelos has announced that a rise in world oil prices would not reach domestic gasoline consumers after refineries agreed to absorb the increase, thus aiding the government's drive to lower inflation.

    The cost to refineries of footing the price rise is estimated at about 300 million drachmas from an estimated rise of 1.3 drachmas per liter of super and unleaded gasoline.

    In a meeting held between Mr. Venizelos and representatives of state-owned Hellenic Petroleum, petroleum product distributors and gasoline station owners, it was also agreed that an average ceiling of five drachmas above the government's weekly indicative retail gasoline prices will be imposed.

    [03] TEMPERATURES EXPECTED TO RISE AGAIN THROUGHOUT THE STATE

    The National Weather Service has forecast another heatwave during the following four days, with temperatures expected to reach 40 degrees Celsius.

    According the meteorologists, this year's summer has proven so far to be the hottest during the past 20 years.

    Municipalities throughout the country are is a state of readiness and all public areas that feature air conditioning will remain open to the general public.

    [B] INTERNATIONAL NEWS

    [04] DEATH TOLL RISES IN TURKEY: OVER 4,000 KILLED BY EARTHQUAKE

    The death toll from the devastating earthquake that occurred during the early morning hours on Tuesday continues to rise, having reached 4,000 so far, while rescue operations, which have managed to access only three percent of the ruins so far, assess that the final number of victims could actually reach 10,000.

    Meanwhile, Turkey's press condemns building contractors for faulty construction while the state mechanism, accused of inactivity, has not escaped the media's wrath.

    Turkish Foreign Minister Ismael Cem thanked Greece for the assistance it readily offered, while Athens' rush to aid has been commented positively in the international press.

    [05] MASSIVE ANTI-GOVERNMENT DEMONSTRATION HELD IN BELGRADE

    The first massive anti-government demonstration since the end of the NATO bombings, is being organized today by the opposition in Belgrade which hopes that participants will surpass the 100,000-mark.

    The opposition's demand is the removal of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and the formation of an interim government. On the other hand, the government accuses the opposition of displaying a hostile attitude towards the country.

    [06] BRITISH AND FRENCH PRESS SALUTE GREECE'S AID TO TURKEY

    In an article title "Greece buries differences to help old enemy", the British daily "The Guardian" salutes Athens's eagerness to provide aid to its neighbor devastated by Tuesday's earthquake that killed more than 4,000 persons. "Greece put aside its long-standing differences with Turkey to offer the country as much help as it needed, for as long as it needed," the article reported, adding that Greece's Foreign minister George Papandreou said Greece has set up a commission to coordinate the aid.

    Three military cargo planes carrying medicines, ambulances, mobile hospital units and thousands of tents took off from an army air base outside Athens yesterday. Greek rescue workers, trained dogs and experts experienced in extracting people from disaster zones also flew to Istanbul.

    "In an unprecedented display of solidarity with the Turks, Greek people began gathering food, clothes and medical supplies for the victims, after an appeal by Athens' mayor," the Guardian added.

    France's "Le Monde" also referred to the aid provided by Greece to Turkey and the talks held between the foreign ministers of the two countries.

    [07] TURKEY QUAKE DAMAGES 400 TIMES GREATER THAN HIROSHIMA RUIN

    The damages suffered by Turkey from Tuesday's major earthquake are assessed at being 400 times greater than the devastation sustained by Hiroshima from the atomic bomb, according to U.S. experts.

    Quoted by the Turkish daily "Sabah", the same experts also stressed that the quake does not constitute a surprise as Turkey, along with Greece and Iran, is located on a seismic zone.

    Meanwhile, the death toll is continually rising and, according to "Sabah", latest estimates bring the number of victims to 5,000, although concern abounds that once bodies are pulled from the ruins the number will surpass the 10,000 mark.

    At the city of Izmit, the quake's epicenter, the hospital morgues are now filled to capacity, as the dead are more than 2,000, and the city's ice-skating ring is now being used as an outdoor mortuary.


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