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...time trial in which Zabriskie crashed, ending his Tour. Armstrong gave the jersey up for a day, to Germany?s Jen Voight, after the ninth stage, saving his strength for the Alpine climbs. Armstrong came out of the Alps with a lead, but a 12th-stage crash cost him Manuel Beltran, a teammate, or ?domestique,? who was slated to protect Armstrong on the Pyrenees climbs...
Even so, to many the effort seemed hopeless only two weeks ago. Anti-NATO activists were attracting hundreds of thousands to rallies. Also, Manuel Fraga Iribarne, head of the Popular Alliance, the main conservative opposition party, urged people to abstain, claiming the referendum was just a political ploy by the Socialists. One prominent voter who ignored the boycott was popular King Juan Carlos, who said he was doing his "civic duty" when he and Queen Sofia cast ballots amid television cameras at a school near their Madrid palace. The King does not vote in municipal and general elections so that...
...joint armed forces command, complained that he had not been informed of a practice alert at the Defense Ministry in Quito. The impetuous Vargas, who is nicknamed "Loco," quickly found himself in a quarrel with the Defense Minister, General Luis Piņeiros Rivera, and the army chief, General Manuel Maria Albuja. Shots were heard inside the ministry. Piņeiros promptly fired Vargas, who in turn charged Piņeiros with accepting a kickback in the purchase of a plane for the national airline. Vargas also alleged that Albuja had diverted defense funds in order to build a private house...
...lose. In France, President Jacques Chirac is foundering after his country's voters rejected the European Constitution; in Britain, Prime Minister Tony Blair recently saw his parliamentary majority sharply reduced; and in recessionary Italy, Premier Silvio Berlusconi is struggling to cling to power. Meanwhile, Commission President José Manuel Barroso is still new in the job. Small wonder that last week's summit meeting involved little more than pruning the European agenda, and squabbling over what remains. Expansion to include Turkey? Don't hold your breath. Reform the Common Agricultural Policy? Not now. With many still stunned by the French...
...gangster is someone with no fear and no goal," says Manuel Romero, a former corporal in the Marine Corps whose brother is in the Playboys. "If you fear something, you will try to move away from it. If you have a goal, you will try to go towards it. They don't go anywhere...