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<span style='font-size:13pt;line-height:100%'>Greek Socialists Demand 2 Mins Quit In Phone-Tapping Case</span>

ATHENS (AP)--The opposition Socialist Party in Greece called Monday for the resignation of two senior ministers over a mobile phone-tapping scandal that hit the country last week.

"The ministers of public order and justice must resign," Socialist spokesman Nikos Athanassakis said. "Nobody believes the government has made public everything it knows about the case."

Thursday, the governing conservatives said they had discovered that senior Greek officials' mobile phones were tapped by unknown individuals from the Athens 2004 Olympics until March 2005.

The list of 100 phones under surveillance included those of Prime Minister Costas Caramanlis, Justice Minister Anastassis Papaligouras and Public Order Minister Giorgos Voulgarakis. Also on the list were the ministers of foreign affairs and defense, top military and police officers, foreign ministry officials, a U.S. embassy number and the Prime Minister's wife, Natasha.

"The government did not react responsibly," Athanassakis said. "They should have informed Parliament and the country's political parties...but instead kept them in the dark."

Government officials said the phones were tapped through spying software in the central computer systems of Vodafone Greece, one of the country's four mobile telephony service providers.

They said it had proved impossible to identify the eavesdroppers, who allegedly received the tapped calls through mobile phones served by telephony masts in a central Athens area ringing the U.S. embassy.

But government spokesman Theodoros Roussopoulos categorically denied that Greece held U.S. officials responsible for the tapping.

Vodafone, which said it discovered and removed the spying software before informing authorities, has denied any wrongdoing.

Monday, Greek authorities reopened an investigation into the suicide of a high-placed Vodafone Greece official in March 2005, one day before the company tipped off government officials on the tapping.

Judicial officials will look into the possibility of adding the suicide to the ongoing tapping investigation. So far, an Athens prosecutor has brought misdemeanor tapping charges against "unknown persons."

Human rights and peace activists whose phones were on the list said Friday they would take legal action seeking damages from Vodafone Greece.

Thursday, human rights groups will stage a demonstration in central Athens against the phone-tapping.

(END) Dow Jones Newswires