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...create an opportunity for ETA to renounce violence. Still, the government must stop shy of any moves that could be interpreted as appeasement. "We have to convince them that they must put an end to their violence," says Rosa Díez, a Basque Socialist member of the European Parliament. "We will not pay a political price to end terrorism." Alas, terrorists aren't necessarily swayed by political logic. Despite high hopes in the Basque Country and elsewhere in Spain that ETA would declare a truce, the organization has been silent on that prospect. Zabaleta says that since a previous...
...leadership of the ALP in serious doubt, several potential candidates began to make themselves known, but the outspoken Latham was the first to threaten the Liberals’ comfortable hold on the electorate. A little over a year ago, Latham delivered a speech to the Australian Parliament, declaring, “I am opposed to the government’s strategy for war in Iraq because it comes from a prime minister who is too weak to say ‘no’ to the Americans.” He continued, “Bush himself is the most...
...Gyanendra has proposed holding new elections within a year but says he won't restore Parliament until the country's infighting political parties unite to confront the Maoists and save the economy. Meanwhile, the Maoist rebellion is getting uglier, with guerrillas said to be abducting whole villages to reinforce their own ranks. The government has banned demonstrations in the capital, but that has only swelled the crowds further. Police have twice arrested as many as 1,000 protesters...
...solo), but most are strong, like the comically half-hearted and self-conscious dance leaps by the Lord Chancellor and Strephon, the Lord Chancellor’s fluidly shifting nightmare scenarios, or the tensely balanced face-off between the Lords and the fairies in the House of Parliament...
Friends can be hard to come by when you're fighting for your political life. During a recent session of the Knesset, Israel's parliament, Ariel Sharon sat impassively as a former supporter harangued him from the podium, addressing the Prime Minister by his nickname, Arik, and attacking his plan to evacuate 7,500 Israeli settlers from the Gaza Strip. "Why can't you be the man you once were?" shouted the man, a settler named Nissim Slomiansky. "Be the old Arik?" Slomiansky accused Sharon of selling out longtime comrades in his single-minded quest to redraw Israel's borders...