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...Denied Pardon. Peter Bleach, British arms dealer serving a life sentence for parachut-ing crates of arms into eastern India; in New Delhi. Bleach was arrested in Bombay with an aircrew from Russia in 1995. The crew received a presidential pardon in 2000 after Moscow intervened. British Prime Minister Tony Blair pressed for Bleach's release during Indian Deputy Premier L.K. Advani's trip to London in June. The suspected ringleader of the weapons plot, Danish national Niels Christen Nielson, was never captured and the intended recipients of the weapons never identified...
...guin faced multiple problems: Tiberi's "dissident" candidacy, public lassitude after nearly a quarter-century of Gaullist rule, voter disgust over allegations of corruption going back to Chirac's days as mayor and, not least, the charge that Séguin was a parachuté-a carpetbagger brought in from the outside. To make matters worse, he has run a lackluster race marked by baffling tactical shifts. By contrast, Delanoë's low-key campaign, boosted by the national popularity of the Socialist-led government, has the wind at its back...
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