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...social club, Eliodoro Londoño straightened his power suit and tried to hide his feelings of powerlessness. Londoño, 47, a telecom executive and El Nogal member, lost friends and colleagues on the night of Feb. 7, when a 200-kg car bomb planted by Colombia's leftist FARC guerrillas ripped through the club's 11 stories, killing 35 people - including six children at a piñata party - and injuring 173. The El Nogal blast was the most devastating attack of the rebels' new urban terror campaign and the first to hit the capital's élite...
...infected gorillas. Moscow President Pervez Musharraf became the first Pakistani leader in 33 years to travel to the Russian capital, where he held talks with President Vladimir Putin. Bogota A bomb ripped through a social club in the Colombian capital, killing at least 30 people and raising fears that leftist rebels were fulfilling a pledge to attack the country's élite. Mecca Saudi officials vowed to use "an iron fist" against any terrorists who try to disrupt the hajj, the annual five-day pilgrimage to Islam's holiest city, below...
...barely any advertising and gives its 4,000-copy print run free to students, the Patriot has relied on donations from wealthy individuals and conservative foundations across the country. Its critics regard such contributions as an attempt by conservatives elsewhere to insinuate themselves into Berkeley politics. But Berkeley's leftist reputation has proved a boon to fund-raising efforts; donors view the Patriot as a beachhead of right-wing thought at a famously liberal university. "In a way, our legacy helps us," says Patriot co-founder Barnett. "People in Alabama may not necessarily be spurred to support a conservative group...
June 1954 The CIA organizes a coup in Guatemala by COLONEL CARLOS CASTILLO ARMAS and other officers against leftist President Jacobo Arbenz Guzman...
...National Banking Council announced that banks will resume normal opening hours from Feb. 2. The move followed the reopening of many businesses, which are struggling to avoid bankruptcy. But oil workers at the heart of the campaign vowed to continue. The strike, intended to unseat leftist President Hugo Chávez, is estimated to have cost at least $4 billion and seven lives. Diplomats from six countries met in the capital, Caracas, to help end the conflict...