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...Fourth of July fireworks in Omaha, Neb., this summer culminated first in a proud, fiery, red-white-and-blue U.S.A., then in rockets that formed smiley faces, then peace symbols. Which mood best fits the moment? Berkeley, Calif., the antiwar town, is busy promulgating laws that would ban coffee that's not environmentally friendly. The most popular TV show for the year was Friends--whose Manhattan-based characters, notes Chicago Tribune TV critic Steve Johnson, "never seemed to realize the skyline had changed." Applications are up for both the Marine Corps and the Peace Corps; does that reflect good hearts...
Arming pilots is hardly a new idea. For decades, up through the 1980s, some pilots carried guns on board--at first to protect the U.S. mail and then to combat hijackings. Although the practice petered out, the government did not formally ban it until July 2001. But after Sept. 11, flight crews realized that talking down hijackers was no longer the right response and revived the idea. The most influential unions joined the campaign of the new Airline Pilots' Security Alliance, whose main goal is to give pilots guns...
...Police raided offices in five cities in northern Spain's Basque region and fought crowds of up to 300 with batons and rubber bullets. Here Batasuna's Eusebio Lasa resists in his own way. After a lopsided vote in parliament, the cabinet agreed to ask the Supreme Court to ban the party. GEORGIA Russia and the Pankisi Gorge Eduard Shevardnadze used a visit to the lawless Pankisi Gorge to renew his criticism of Russia's alleged Aug. 23 air raid on Georgian territory. It "has broken all limits," Georgia's President said at the funeral of Guram Otiashvili, supposedly killed...
...structure and, as such, shares responsibility for the band's terrorist actions. The move coincided with a resolution passed on Monday in the Spanish Congress by a large bipartisan majority, urging the government of Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar to petition the Supreme Court for an outright ban on the party - the first such a measure since the restoration of democratic rule in Spain...
...move, detailed to the school in a memo sent Friday by HLS Dean Robert C. Clark, came after the Air Force determined in May that the school’s ban on employers who fail to adhere to a nondiscrimination policy was not in compliance with a federal statute...