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...Bundestag's foreign-affairs committee. "When you have good cooperation on the economy, there are opportunities for both sides." Alexander Rahr, a Russia specialist at the German Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin, says economic issues have come to predominate. "Merkel can't conduct a pro-human rights, pro-ngo policy toward Russia because then how can she defend German business?" Yet even Merkel, raised in East Germany, publicly criticized repression in Chechnya while meeting with Putin in Moscow. She is "cooler and more pragmatic" toward Russia than Schröder, says Rahr. Polenz argues that her government "is more...
...wooden predecessor: It was built of concrete and would play tough defense against visiting arsonists.WORLD ON FIREThe Harvard Stadium press box was not the only flash point that spring. On April 23, 1981, a 28-year-old Vietnamese immigrant named Nguyen Cheu hurled a Molotov cocktail at Long V. Ngo ’68, who was participating in a University forum on Vietnam. Ngo was unharmed, but the firebomb injured one of the policemen escorting the scholar to his car.The attack sparked a fierce debate between those who claimed Ngo was an apologist for the reeducation camps of an oppressive...
...offices of the relief agency were looted and burned to the ground, along with those of French aid agency ACTED and a number of Afghan restaurants and businesses. On Tuesday, four Afghan aid workers with the charity Action Aid were killed in the first targeted attack on an NGO in northern Jawzjan province, which like Kabul, had previously been viewed as stable. "People were angry with the NGOs because they are using lots of money for themselves. The only people who get any benefit from them being here are the people are working for them," said Isatullah, a mechanic...
...visit was just one stop on the group's $1,300 two-week "reality tour" of Chavez's Venezuela, organized by the San Francisco-based NGO Global Exchange. It was a clear sign that Venezuela, much like Cuba in the 1960s or Nicaragua in the 1980s, is fast becoming a destination for foreign leftists. As a diplomatic battle between Venezuela and the U.S. intensifies - with Washington banning any arms sales to Chavez and his government in turn threatening to sell fighter jets to Iran - Americans unhappy with the Bush Administration are eager to witness with their own eyes Chavez...
...World Trade Organization and the World Bank. But in January, Global Exchange brought 175 tourists to Venezuela, lodging them in four- and five-star hotels - and it has at least one trip scheduled per month for the rest of the year. Milco Chacoa, a tour guide for the NGO, says visitors are captivated by Chavez. "They have a huge interest in seeing Chavez," he said. "To shake his hand or give him a hug would be almost a dream." But another Venezuelan tour guide said he thought the Americans were "crazy" for spending their vacation time in Venezuela's poor...