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...Nigeria's deadly delta" [May 22] reported on the nascent insurgency in Nigeria's oil fields. The pervasive optimism that spread along with the re-emergence of democracy in Nigeria has been defeated. Poverty and corruption are still concomitant with Nigeria's struggling democracy, and unfortunately ethnopolitical opportunists have exploited the status quo for economic gains, as the Niger Delta crisis has illustrated. While politicians seem poised to tackle those ignominies, they have been preoccupied with personal aspirations, notably President Olesegun Obasanjo's efforts to change the constitution and run for a third term. Until government institutions embrace a truly...
...glad that time has brought the plight of the people of the Delta region to the attention of the world. While Nigeria's oil industry has produced billionaires, mostly from majority ethnic groups, the people of the Delta are left in penury. All the wealth is stolen and controlled by the majority tribes, who look down on the people of that region as inferior. It is the oil that Nigeria values, not the people. What the Nigerian state does to the people of the Niger Delta is abhorrent and pathetic. Akanimo Akan Lagos...
...implementation goals backed by a well-established institutional setup. This setup now extends to Guangdong, where our Chief Executive, Donald Tsang, and the Guangdong Governor, Huang Huahua, oversee a Joint Liaison Group to agree on action plans and monitor progress on the environment for the whole Pearl River Delta region. The target on air quality is to achieve emissions reductions for both sides by 2010. The reduction program has started and 16 state-of-the-art monitoring stations are now up and running. If one compares the air quality of Hong Kong and Seoul in recent years, the two cities...
Martin Terrazas Jr. and his younger brother Miguel used to work the counters together at Ben's Tacos, the combination eatery and convenience store owned by their family on Delta Street in El Paso, Texas. For $3, you get half a dozen tacos; a dollar gets you a comb or a pair of die. It was Terrazas tradition to stand behind the counter at Ben's: Martin and Miguel's father, uncles and cousins worked there, wearing the store uniform, a full-length orange apron. There was another family tradition: the military. Grandfather Jorge is an Army vet. Uncle Luis...
...siege wore on, a desperate Carter reached for an improbable armed mission. The plan called for slipping members of the U.S.'s still untested new Delta Force, an élite Army rescue unit, through Iranian airspace to a makeshift desert landing strip in Iran. Then they would be trucked into Tehran, where they would somehow fight their way into the embassy compound and out of it again with the hostages in tow. Instead, a Delta Force chopper collided on the runway with a C-130 transport plane that had 44 Delta troops inside, and eight soldiers died in the fireball...