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Date:         Thu, 10 Sep 1992 18:16:52 -0400
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From:         Anastassiades - Advanced Rotorcraft Technology / NASA Ames
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Subject:      2 eidhseis apo Ellada
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Parte tora kai 2 eidiseis apo Athina:

Tassos Anastassiades
Mountain View, CA

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Subject: Former Stasi officer sentenced for entering Greece illegally
Keywords: international, non-usa government, government, terrorism,
	violent crime, legal
Date: 10 Sep 92 15:36:39 GMT
Location: greece, mideast
ACategory: international
Slugword: greece-terrorist
Priority: regular
Format: regular
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Codes: &igfrxx., &iz.rgr., &ilxrxp., tncn....


	ATHENS, Greece (UPI) -- An Athens court Thursday sentenced a former
director of Stasi, the East German secret police, to 10 months in prison
for entering Greece illegally and said he was a dangerous person linked
to terrorism and should not be released on bail while appealing the
sentence.
	Helmut Voigt, 50, was tried and sentenced three days after he was
arrested in an Athens hotel on a tip from Germany, where he is wanted
for links to the international terrorist ``Carlos.''
	Germany has asked for his extradition to stand trial for supplying 53
pounds of explosives to a terrorist known as ``Carlos'' for a 1983
attack on the French consulate in what was then West Berlin. One person
was killed and several injured in the attack.
	Voigt was in Athens on a passport that identified him as Alfred
Herman, but German authorities informed Greece the passport was stolen
in May 1991 from a government office in Berlin.
	During questioning by Greek police, the German denied he was Voigt
but admitted in court he had been a member of Stasi. He said he was
never involved in international terrorism.
	Voigt was driven to the high security Korydalos Prison after being
sentenced to 10 months. The court held he should not be released on bail
while appealing the verdict because he was a dangerous person believed
linked to terrorism.
	Greek authorities are still awaiting a formal request from Germany
for Voigt's extradition, but under Greek law Voigt must first serve his
jail term for illegally entering Greeece before he can be extradited.
	``Carlos,'' also known as ``The Jackal,'' is the assumed name of
Venezuelan-born Ilyich Ramirez Sanchez, wanted in several countries for
acts of terrorism in the 1970s and 1980s.
	There was speculation in the Greek press that Voigt may also be
linked to the ``Revolutionary Organization November 17,'' a terrorist
group active in Greece since 1975 and responsible for killing 18 people.



Subject: Athens strikes disrupt business, transport, communications
Keywords: non-usa government, government operation, strike, labor,
	non-usa economy, economy
X-Supersedes: <greece-strikesU2SA10ae@clarinet.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 8:43:34 PDT
Location: greece
ACategory: financial
Slugword: greece-strikes
Priority: regular
Format: daily
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Note: (also moving general newswire)

	ATHENS, Greece (UPI) -- Strikes by public sector workers disrupted
business, transport and communications in Athens for the second
consecutive day Thursday but did not completely cripple life in the
city.
	Thousands of union members stayed away from work in response to a
call by the General Confederation of Greek Workers unions and the Public
Sector Unions federation, stopping city transport, closing state-owned
banks and slowing down work at postal facilities.
	Also affected were telecommunications and the electricity supply, but
government officials said only 30 percent of the union members had
responded to the strike call, and business had not been completely
crippled in the capital.
	The unions made the strike call to protest stiff austerity measures
introduced by conservative Prime Minister Constantine Mitsotakis, who
has been trying to reform the Greek economy since he assumed power two
years ago.
	The country has been hit by a series of strikes since July, when the
New Democracy government, with a thin majority in Parliament, said it
was laying off 1,000 workers of the state-owned Blue Bus service in
Athens.
	After all 8,000 employees of the state company kept the buses off the
city streets for two weeks in protest, the government passed a bill in
Parliament dissolving the company and privatizing city transport.
	This led to a call by the General Confederation of Greek Workers
unions for a series of protest strikes and demonstrations.
	At some points, the demonstrations in Athens have been violent, with
police using tear gas to disperse unruly strikers, but in general the
protests have remained peaceful.
	Mitsotakis has refused to compromise on the privatization of the Blue
Bus service, and said his government has already issued licenses to 2,
000 bus operators to run a privatized service.
	The unions are also protesting a bill in Parliament calling for a cut
in retirement benefits to public sector workers, particularly those of
the Public Power Corp., which is responsible for supplying electricity
to Athens.
	Striking electricity workers have responded by cutting power supplies
to different parts of the city at different times of the day for about
90 minutes each day.
	The conservative government has come under sharp criticism from the
left-wing opposition in Parliament led by former Socialist Prime
Minister Andreas Papandreou, who has repeatedly called on Mitsotakis to
resign.
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