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...back without a conference.'' At least 100 Palestinians had died in the uprising by last week, but for the first time, an Israeli soldier was killed, shot in cold blood as he stood guard duty in Bethlehem. The army issued new shoot-to-kill orders against any Palestinian throwing Molotov cocktails. It also said in effect that Jewish settlers in the territories would be permitted to shoot rioters attacking them with gasoline bombs. There was prescience in Chaim Weizmann's declaration in 1949: ''I am certain that the world will judge the Jewish state by what it will do with...
...crowd begun its march to Chile’s seat of government, La Moneda. I returned home to TV coverage of tear gas and water-shooting tanks. The cops had been called out to protect La Moneda, the target of Pinochet’s bombs in 1973 and a Molotov cocktail on the anniversary of his coup last September. But despite descriptions in the Chilean media of the demonstrations as "massive," in a city of approximately six million people, TV stations estimated that less than 1,000 had gathered at La Moneda. The idea that a crowd smaller than...
...Tanner is a central agent of Labor's policy renewal. But he's not as well known in the arena as those from the Molotov faction: incendiaries Kevin Rudd, Wayne Swan, Julia Gillard and Stephen Smith. Once described as the Shadow Minister for the Medium Term, Tanner likens himself to a ship's engineer: out of sight, always working, covered in grease. Part of his role in Labor's strategy group is to cost proposed election promises and find existing programs that can be cut. As well, Tanner and others have stripped out those parts of the a.l.p. platform that...
...coming down around our ears. The other day, while watching the completely non-partisan and unbiased Fox News Network, I was treated to several stories on rioting, civil unrest, and generalized chaos. The languages, skin tones, and political backgrounds of the participants all changed, but burning cars, Molotov cocktails, and swarms of plastic-shielded riot police provided enough continuity for even the most unschooled to make the connection: In more than a few countries, things are bad and people are really angry about...
...Benito Ju?rez University, where they continue to send messages through its radio station, Radio Universitaria, giving orders and calling for a "red alert" against the federal forces. The university is barricaded against the police, and according to witness and intelligence sources in Mexico City, the occupiers are accumulating Molotov cocktails and hand-made PVC rockets...