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...missiles at Iraq's Oil Ministry left part of the complex ablaze. Other makeshift explosive devices planted near the Italian Embassy in Baghdad and close to the offices of a Kurdish political party were disarmed by U.S. troops. - By Adam Smith Holding the Cards SPAIN The pro-independence Catalan Republican Left party nearly doubled its representation in the Catalan assembly, winning 23 of 135 seats in regional elections. The CRL now holds the balance...
...MATURIN. Oh, dear. The film has him as nothing more than a doctor and naturalist who happens to be Aubrey's best friend. In fact, he was proudly Irish (with a touch of Catalan), a spy for the British, not handsome and utterly incapable of doing anything shipshape...
Well-connected in Catalan intellectual circles, Sert’s first major commission was Spain’s pavilion at the 1937 International Exposition in Paris. “As the product of a nation at war with itself it is a miracle,” the Carpenter Center display quotes one publication as saying at the time of the building’s inauguration. As a piece of architecture, it was a mild success. At the end of the Exposition, Sert’s design would largely go forgotten, its fame overshadowed by the mural it housed?...
...peacekeepers found proof of the sales at Orao's factory in eastern Bosnia. Jugoimport's office in Baghdad was ordered to shut. SPAIN Separate Ways The favorite to be the new president of Catalonia's ruling party called for greater independence for the autonomous region. Artur Mas of the Catalan-nationalist Convergence and Union coalition called for a new autonomy statute that would give Catalonia separate representation in the E.U. and other international bodies, and the final say on its public finances. In exchange, Mas offered to support the governing Popular Party in Madrid. The demands were immediately rejected...
...history of art has Pablo Picasso to thank for René Magritte. "You see, like many young painters in the 1920s I wanted to live in Paris," Magritte once told a pair of journalists visiting his picket-fence cottage in suburban Brussels. "And in Paris, there was this wild Catalan who was doing all there was to be done with technique. I could tell there wasn't going to be any technique left for the rest of us to invent. So that's when I decided I was going to paint ideas...