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...Basque region and fought crowds of up to 300 with batons and rubber bullets. Here Batasuna's Eusebio Lasa resists in his own way. After a lopsided vote in parliament, the cabinet agreed to ask the Supreme Court to ban the party. GEORGIA Russia and the Pankisi Gorge Eduard Shevardnadze used a visit to the lawless Pankisi Gorge to renew his criticism of Russia's alleged Aug. 23 air raid on Georgian territory. It "has broken all limits," Georgia's President said at the funeral of Guram Otiashvili, supposedly killed in the raid on Matani village. Shevardnadze's trip...
...Mike Root, 58, who owns his home free and clear in Ann Arbor, Mich., sharing his house is mainly about companionship, not money. Never married, Root, a retired vocational counselor, uses a wheelchair, although he has some mobility in his legs. He relies on his housemate, construction worker Eduard Koopman, 54, to shop for his groceries once a week. In exchange, he offers reduced rent. His previous housemate, Maureen Salazar, 54, is a single woman who three years ago decided to leave the corporate world to pursue life as an artist. "I had to cut my living expenses," she says...
...plan lands Washington in the middle of the complex and violent world of Caucasus politics and allies it firmly with a leader, Georgia's Eduard Shevardnadze, whose grip on power has weakened dramatically in recent years--and who remains high on Russian President Vladimir Putin's list of least favorite people. Putin, who views Georgia as being firmly within Russia's sphere of influence, has publicly offered support for the U.S. action. But he claimed, reproachfully, that Washington did not inform him in advance. Then his lieutenants put in the knife: a gas concern closely linked to the Kremlin announced...
...routing of Caspian Sea oil has been the central focus of geopolitical maneuvering in the region over the past decade. And Russia has spent much of that period trying unsuccessfully to pressure Georgia's president, former Soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze, to toe Moscow's line. Moscow helped facilitate the breakaway of Abkhazia from Georgia, in order to weaken the government in Tbilisi. Georgians insist that Russia has also been behind some of the numerous coup- and assassination attempts against Shevardnadze. Certainly Moscow has made no secret of its anxiety over the Georgians' cozy relationship with...
...hospitality, this last revelation is as deplorable as anything in Goñi's investigations. The roll call of indicted Nazi war criminals who ended up living more or less openly in Argentina until Perón was overthrown in 1955 includes Adolf Eichmann, Josef Mengele, Eduard Roschmann, Klaus Barbie, Ante Pavelic, Gerhard Bohne and Erich Priebke. This may be a matter-of-fact account of a sordid incident. But by keeping emotion at arm's length Goñi heightens the impact...