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Monks in tax row

Friday 24 July 1992 19:02 EDT
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ATHENS (Reuter) - The all- male monastic community of Mount Athos, which already bans women, threatened to exclude all visitors if the state taxed its property. The Mount Athos leadership said in a letter to the Prime Minister, Constantine Mitsotakis, that the monks' requests were ignored by ministers.

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