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...meantime, the newly headless group will likely only grow weaker. "More and more, the structure of ETA is eroding," says Sánchez-Cuenca. "It's not clear anymore who is making the decisions." Thus there is cautious hope that Europe's last anachronistic terrorist grouping, which has more than 800 deaths to answer for over the last forty years, may finally be heading towards the obsolescence of Northern Ireland's IRA, Germany's Red Army Faction and Italy's Red Brigades. But such hopes have been cruelly dashed before...
Yemenis are cautious for good reason, however, as the consequences of apostasy can take the form of extra-judicial violence, according to Yadav...
...CAUTIOUS OPTIMISM...
...voted for the $700 billion Wall Street bailout, but there are bound to be far more claims on that pot than there is money available in it, and the three months between now and Inauguration Day are not likely to be kind to the new kid. Obama has been cautious at every turn not to commit himself to too many details. But he has made a lot of promises of his own. Clinton, for one, has no illusions about what lies ahead. "I remember very well, right after Bill was elected, we found out that the budget deficit was twice...
...schooled in disappointment: they elected Blair and his Labour government in a burst of goodwill in 1997 but watched him leave office last year with much of that goodwill dissipated. "Obama has to avoid repeating the mistake we made back then," said one Labour MP. "We were too cautious, and we wasted our first term when we should have been doing big, bold things with our majority." It's a point that Labour Cabinet Minister Shaun Woodward made more obliquely. Obama, he said, "is not only making history but learning from it." There's that H word again...