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Talking to the Basque terrorist group eta has long been anathema to Spanish governments. But Socialist Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero seems prepared to bite the bullet this time. The Spanish Congress last week passed a resolution giving the government authority to negotiate with eta - if it lays down its arms. Batasuna, the banned political party close to eta, welcomed the move. "We think it's a step in the right direction," says Arnaldo Otegi, Batasuna's spokesman. The opposition Popular Party (PP) and victims' groups are livid, accusing Zapatero of providing eta with what...
That’s where France comes in. Whereas most heads of state chose to have the treaty ratified by the surefire approach of a parliamentary vote, ten others, including Tony Blair, Jacques Chirac, and Rodríguez Zapatero, daringly preferred to call a high-stakes popular referendum. High-stakes indeed, since the treaty requires unanimous ratification of all the member states and one vote gone wrong can spoil the party for everybody. The trouble is that the last thirteen polls have the French voting “no” on May 29, and Chirac is getting nervous. Last...
...first word to the outside world came from Armero's mayor, Ramn Antonio Rodrguez, 34. A ham operator, he was on the radio to a fellow ham in Ibagu, 60 miles to the south, when Nevado del Ruiz erupted, scattering rock and ashes across the Lagunilla Canyon. The mayor was calmly describing the event when suddenly he shouted, "Wait a minute. I think the town is getting flooded." Those words were his last...
...mudslide that entombed Rodrguez cut through Armero like a liquid scythe. Henao later recollected that the wave "rolled into town with a moaning sound, like some sort of monster." Luckily, her home was on a hill. "Houses below us started cracking under the advance of the river of mud," she recalled. She grabbed her children and climbed to the roof of her home. As they watched, more than 80% of the roughly 4,200 buildings in Armero simply vanished into the torrents of slime. Said she: "It seemed like the end of the world...
Prior to the past few weeks, there was much talk that the conclave that replaced John Paul might discount relatively youthful papabili like Schnborn, 60, and Rodrguez Maradiaga, 62. Reason: after John Paul's multidecade marathon, the electors would, as McBrien puts it, "be looking for a breather" and would try to avoid the possibility of another long-term Pontiff. There was much discussion of an older, interim figure, a caretaker who by definition would have to worry less about living up to John Paul's gargantuan legacy...