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...Labour Party conference cheering and stomping and forgetting, at least for a while, about all the issues - privatization, civil liberties, war against Iraq - where so many Labourites have profound disagreements with Tony Blair. These annual rituals are a funny mix of theater, trading floor and reunion. You can see Cabinet ministers getting buttonholed by irate local officials or chatting amiably about former Prime Minister John Major's sex scandal as they prop up the bar the night before their big speeches. Once the scene of brutal factional brawls, the conference in Blair's era has been systematically drained of strife...
...force bases, radio stations and parliamentary institutions. It is unlikely that the ambitious coup could have ever succeeded, but police say that however unrealistic, the conspiratorial nature of the documents and the arms caches are enough to raise a security threat. The Farmers' Force claims to be the "war cabinet" of the "interim government of the South African Boer Republic." Their aim, according to Document 12, is to form a white, Afrikaner state, a throwback to the republics of the Boer War era - meaning that all blacks and Asians would be "chased out." The group also branded Afrikaner politicians, such...
...former Conservative Party deputy chairman, who in 1987 won ?500,000 from Express Newspapers for allegations that he had slept with a prostitute. Archer, now serving a four-year sentence for perjury in the case, last week finished repaying that sum plus damages, costs and interest. Former Tory cabinet minister Jonathan Aitken also served time for perjuring himself during a libel action he brought against the Guardian, which had accused him of accepting gifts. By 1999 Aitken was bankrupt, his legal bill still unpaid. Since Major's libel actions never came to trial - and because they predated a change...
...forced into exile. But Ben-Eliezer and most of the other officials spoke against exile, believing it would give Arafat new life and a ready excuse for his inability--or refusal, as Israelis see it--to rein in militants. At 6:30 p.m. Sharon convened a meeting of his Cabinet and announced a plan to isolate his old enemy but not exile or kill him. As the meeting broke up, Israel Defense Forces tanks were already moving on Arafat's compound...
...investigation is continuing, but with two cabinet ministers' assassinations and a string of Kabul bombings as yet unsolved or unexplained it's not expected any culprits will be found soon. And though the list of suspects, as in all these incidents, is long, an act of terrorism by re-grouping al-Qaeda or Afghan opposition forces cannot be discounted...