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Presidential elections in Greece
Costis Stephanopoulos, age 74, has been re-elected as president
of the 300 member unicameral parliament to a second five-year term.
50 miles
50 km
GREECE
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Athens
A look at the results
Total votes in favor of C. Stephanopoulos mm
Votes Party
■■■■
161 Socialist Movement
101 New Democratic Party
7 Independent deputies
Total votes in favor of Leonidas Kyrkos
10
10 Left Coalition Party
Total abstentions
19
8 Socialist Democratic
Movement
11 Greek Communist Party
Two of the New Democratic Party members were
absent due to illness.
Source: Compiled from AP wire reports
Zappeion
(Exhibition Hall)
Temple of
Olympian
Zeus
Olympic Etnikos
Swimming Pool (Athletics field)
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AP
Man charged with
mass-killing
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — A man
who confessed to killing 100 chil
dren was formally charged with
their deaths Tuesday.
NEWS IN BRIEF
laved Iqbal turned himself in to
authorities in December and gave
a “confession statement,” accord
ing to police. He took police to the
site where two victims were buried,
but police have not found any more
corpses.
Many of the children who disap
peared were from extremely poor
families and spent their days beg
ging in the streets.
Iqbal appeared briefly in the Low
er Court in Lahore on Tuesday, but
did not speak.
He could face the death penalty if
convicted.
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