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...they telling us that we should not fight against terrorism, that we should put our democracy into jeopardy?" KING GYANENDRA, of Nepal, having dismissed the government and declared a state of emergency on Feb. 1, arguing that nations like India and Britain should continue to provide military aid to help him defeat a Maoist insurgency...
MEANWHILE IN BRITAIN... Cold, Cold Art There have been many attempts to promote peace in Northern Ireland, but artist Rita Duffy'seffort is unique. Duffy plans to tow an iceberg from Norway to Belfast, the city where the ill-fated Titanic was built and from which it set off on its fatal maiden voyage in 1912. Duffy said she hoped the iceberg would be "a symbol of hope" for the province's divided community. Alas, like so many peace agreements before it, the work is bound to melt down...
...referral. Could the U.S. turn a blind eye to jurisdiction by the I.C.C., which is, after all, an "internationally accepted means"? "You can dovetail that, but I can't," says the U.S. spokesman. While the U.N. debates, hundreds die in the region every day. - By Maryann Bird Food Fright BRITAIN A U.K. food scare involving the banned dye Sudan 1 - shown to be carcinogenic in rats - spread to 15 other, mostly European, countries. Britain issued an alert on Feb. 18 when Premier Foods reported that it found traces of Sudan 1 in a batch of chili powder in its Worcester...
...drop the ball. They hope each successive passage will make it harder for voters to break ranks and reject the text." That's a sound strategy, but it may not work. While polls indicate that the no vote forces are a minority in all countries holding plebiscites except Britain, they also show a widespread lack of understanding and interest in the constitution. According to one recent E.U.-wide study, a mere 11% of respondents said they knew what the constitution contains; 56% said they knew little; and 33% said they had never even heard of it. The sort of people...
...then, to more mainstream projects. What about Steven Spielberg’s take on H. G. Wells’ War of the Worlds, awaiting a June 29 release, in which Robbins shares the screen with Tom Cruise, Miranda Otto, and Dakota Fanning? The residents of late-Victorian Britain felt the brute force of interplanetary colonialism in Wells’ classic science fiction novel, and Robbins is the first to admit that Spielberg’s contemporary update, set in America, might have some underlying relevance to the current geopolitical scene...