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...series of proposals and projects that have been test-marketed. Depending on public reaction, those proposals have been modified, put off or canceled altogether. The talk on the street is cautious, and uncertainty is common: Will we end up as the Disunited States of Spain? Monica Flores Madrid Big and Fuel-Efficient Michael Elliott's welcome feature on our report Winning the Oil Endgame [Sept. 27] had a headline, "Kicking the Big-Car Habit," that did not correctly reflect the thesis of the team at Rocky Mountain Institute. We support Americans' right to drive any type of vehicle they want...
Although most of the questions focused on Almodovar’s film career, he briefly addressed the current political situations in Spain and the United States after one audience member asked for his political perspective in light of the Madrid train bombing by al Qaeda seven months...
...What happened in Madrid gave the political party in power a choice as to how to deal with the people’s fear,” he said. “If it was carried out by an Islamic group, then the responsibility certainly lay at the doorstep of the party in power and the pathetic way in which it handled the issue with Iraq...
...Mortal Blow? After the March 11 terror attacks in Madrid were blamed on the Basque separatist group ETA - but turned out to be the work of a group thought to have links with al-Qaeda - it was comforting to think ETA might be a spent force. But despite a series of sweeping arrests in the past decade, cross-border raids in Spain and France this month uncovered evidence that the organization is far from broken. Last week Spanish forces arrested five ETA members after Oct. 3 sweeps netted 18 Basque militants, and found enormous caches of arms, munitions and nearly...
Seven months ago, opposition leader Mark Latham announced on a radio talk show that if his Labor Party won the upcoming election it would pull Australian troops out of Iraq "by Christmas." Two weeks earlier, a terrorist bombing in Madrid had helped elect a socialist government pledged to withdraw Spanish troops from Iraq. For voters, Latham's vow is not the main issue in the Oct. 9 election, but for observers around the world it's practically the only...