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...blamed for the chaos that follows a default. If it agrees to support the government, it will be blamed for any failure. It cannot win." In the short term, however, the country will have to default on its debts and balance its budget, having exhausted its credit. "Once the maximum of politically feasible pain has been imposed on residents, the rest of it must logically be borne by foreign creditors," Wolf writes. But for now Argentina has to find its own way out of the crisis...
From the little that is known about Walker's case so far, legal experts say it is unlikely that he will face treason charges, for which the Constitution applies a maximum penalty of death. That's partly because the framers, mindful of how abusively treason had been applied in England, set a high standard of proof: a confession in open court, or at least two witnesses testifying to someone's waging an "overt act" of war against his country or giving aid and comfort to the enemy...
...Domestic opponents of missile defense may have taken September 11th as vindication of their argument that the program devotes maximum resources to countering the least likely threat, but they mostly kept quiet about it. The administration insisted that the attacks showed American vulnerability, and that missile defense was now more urgent than ever. And in the political climate of the war on terrorism, nobody was going to challenge that logic. Moreover the spectacle of Russia's President Vladimir Putin chowing down on barbecue at the Bush ranch allayed fears of new tensions with Moscow, even though the bonhomie failed...
...ethnic Albanians in July. GREECE Holiday Snaps A hobby practiced by a group of British and Dutch tourists in Greece grew into a diplomatic incident after they were arrested and charged with espionage. Lawyers said 14 aviation enthusiasts, or "plane spotters," would be charged with offenses that carry a maximum 20-year jail sentence, including taking photographs and recording information from restricted military bases. British Prime Minister Tony Blair intervened on behalf of the detainees amid concern about the conditions in which they were being held. But authorities said the group had been warned three times before their arrest...
...only 40,000 hotel rooms and 10,000 homestays. The government has had to enlist thousands of love hotels to plug the gap. They are called "budget inns" on the official accommodation website, worldinn.com, but most are the kind that rent rooms by the hour?up to a maximum of four hours?and where guests slip in through entrances artfully hidden behind massive potted plants. Worried that foreigners may get the wrong idea, the government recently ordered the hotels to abide by some decency rules: they must eschew such suggestive props as water beds, mirrors on the ceiling and porno...