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After lobbing his shoes at George W. Bush last December--during the then U.S. President's final official visit to Iraq--Muntazer al-Zaidi, 30, a journalist turned Iraqi hero, was sentenced to three years in jail on March 12. Al-Zaidi declared that his actions were patriotic and just...
...Salvador Rebels Take Power, Peacefully A political party largely composed of former leftist guerrillas swept into power in El Salvador's presidential election on March 15, ushering in a new era for a nation dominated for two decades by the right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance. Mauricio Funes, a former television journalist and the first Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front candidate never to have served as a guerrilla commander, capitalized on voter disaffection with widespread poverty and soaring crime rates to win 51% of the vote. Funes, who styles himself as a political moderate in the mold of popular Brazilian President...
...Tehran A Reformer Withdraws Former President Mohammed Khatami dropped out of Iran's presidential race on March 17 to avoid splitting the pro-reform vote in upcoming elections. Khatami, the West's favored candidate, has thrown his support behind fellow reformist Mir-Hossein Moussavi, uniting the opposition against incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the current front runner...
...Madagascar FROM CHAOS TO COUP President Marc Ravalomanana ceded power to the country's military on March 17 after soldiers stormed a presidential palace in the capital city of Antananarivo. The move followed two months of antigovernment protests--many of which were prompted by Antananarivo's ex-mayor, former DJ Andry Rajoelina, who declared himself the country's new leader. Ravalomanana accused his political rival of seizing power by illegal means (according to Madagascar's constitution, the 34-year-old Rajoelina isn't old enough to be President), while the African Union accused Rajoelina of orchestrating a coup that threatens...
Declining readership is normally blamed, but that's not quite it. Newspapers still attract readers--more than 400,000 each Sunday in Seattle when the P-I died March 17. That's more in one town than most cable-news shows draw nationwide...