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...domestic consequences for their rumored cooperation with U.S. counterterrorism measures, many in Britain have been voluble in their opposition to what they see as the U.S.'s abrogation of human rights as well as violations of law and British sovereignty. Says the chief spokesman for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office: "Our intelligence and counterterrorism relationship with the U.S. is vital to the national security of the United Kingdom. We accept U.S. assurances on rendition in good faith. But if others have definitive evidence of rendition through the U.K. or our overseas territories, including Diego Garcia, then we will raise...
...Caucasus, headed mainly into cities of western Georgia. In Sukhumi the Abkhazian insurgents are accused of having carried out mass ''ethnic cleansing,'' looting and plundering the former homes of Georgians, Russians and people of other nationalities. In a belated move to support Georgia, which reluctantly joined the Russia- dominated Commonwealth of Independent States only two weeks ago, Moscow has cut off energy and fuel supplies to Abkhazia and has sealed the border with the rebel-held region. Still, Georgian officials fear that their country faces complete collapse unless the Kremlin sends Russian troops to help recapture the Black Sea region...
...opposition Progressive Federal Party, called the decree ''the most severe clampdown on civil liberty and the most far-reaching denial of freedom of speech and assembly and the press in the history of South Africa.'' The government brought down this boot on the very day that a group of Commonwealth statesmen were holding a press conference in London to release a / report that denounces the South African government for blocking negotiations with the country's black leaders, especially the jailed Nelson Mandela. The so-called Eminent Persons Group that drew up the report warned that unless the Commonwealth nations take...
...information describing the anatomical and physiological characteristics of her unborn child at ''two-week gestational increments.'' Pennsylvania legislators acknowledge that the law was intended to discourage women from an abortion. Writing for the court majority, Blackmun called this requirement ''nothing less than an outright attempt to wedge the Commonwealth's message discouraging abortion into the privacy of the informed-consent dialogue.'' States are not free, he wrote, to use ''the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.'' Rejecting Pennsylvania's argument that the regulations were in the state's justifiable interest, Blackmun concluded...
...security scare caused by Pak's forgery highlighted a significant vulnerability to student and faculty members' Crimson Cash accounts, which are directly linked to HUID numbers and are considered financial account numbers by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts...