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...based on his findings that Batasuna forms an integral part of ETA's structure and, as such, shares responsibility for the band's terrorist actions. The move coincided with a resolution passed on Monday in the Spanish Congress by a large bipartisan majority, urging the government of Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar to petition the Supreme Court for an outright ban on the party - the first such a measure since the restoration of democratic rule in Spain...
Such examples show that the future "is more a matter of choice than destiny," as Brazilian physicist Jose Goldemberg, the chairman of a recent United Nations energy study, put it. On the windy border of Washington and Oregon, citizen groups are already making a choice. They have pressured utilities to invest in green energy, and a federal tax credit has made it more profitable. "It's the right thing to do," says Vito Giarrusso, manager of the Stateline wind farm, "to help our little piece of the earth." --With reporting by Toko Sekiguchi/Tokyo
...SENTENCED. FRANCISCO MUGICA and JOSE MARIA ARREGUI, high-ranking members of the Basque separatist group ETA; to a combined 743 years in prison for planning a 1987 attack on a bus carrying military personnel outside the northeastern city of Zaragoza; in Madrid. The men were arrested in the south of France in 1992 and extradited to Spain in 2000. The ambush killed two and injured...
...Iraq, Chile under Pinochet, Somalia. Then ask yourself how safe you would feel living in those countries. I would not feel very safe living in a country where the government can arrest and detain indefinitely any citizen it chooses without trial or due process, as in the case of Jose Padilla. BRUCE ZUIDEMA Robbinsville...
...naval base in Norfolk, VA. Hamdi lacks the homegrown factor that may have helped Lindh; he has lived with his family in Saudi Arabia for much of his life. He has been held without access to an attorney since his capture earlier this year. The second domestic terrorist, Jose Padilla, is under arrest for allegedly conspiring with al-Qaeda operatives to execute a terrorist...