Tuesday, 13. July 2004
Topic: NEWS english - on July 13, 2004 at 1:58:00 PM CEST
Athens outage raises Olympic power concerns
Government officials promise measures are in place to keep games from going dark.
The worst blackout in more than a decade hit Athens and southern Greece on Monday, leaving millions sweltering in a heat wave and raising concerns about whether the lights will go out at next month's Olympics.
The government blamed the outage on "mismanagement" of the electricity grid. Still, officials promised the network was ready to handle the Aug. 13-29 Olympics.
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