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...week, when 60,000 farmers wearing broad- brimmed bush hats converged on Melbourne to dramatize their hardships. Coming from specks on the map like Yackandandah and Koo-wee-rup, they marched along leading sheepdogs or, in two cases, mounted on camels. AUSTRALIA FOR SHEEP, NOT POLITICAL GOATS proclaimed one placard. Rally leader Danny Johnson from Warracknabeal drew cheers when he shouted, "The heart has been ripped out of country Australia by high interest rates and excessive government taxes...
...introduced summary trial and execution for looters. Hamza Hendawi, a Reuters correspondent who escaped from Kuwait last week, reports that as a warning to thieves, Iraqi forces strung up the body of an executed lieutenant colonel on a crane and left it dangling outside Kuwait's municipal headquarters. A placard around the corpse's neck read HE STOLE THE MONEY OF THE PEOPLE. Beneath the body were piled stolen clothes and electrical goods. According to the Washington Post, the officer may actually have been punished for leading a dissident group in a clash with other Iraqi forces...
...Francisco's main thoroughfares. The marchers stalled trolley buses in the middle of the street by pulling the vehicles' rooftop poles away from the overhead wires that supply the vehicles with electric power. Another group briefly occupied a cable car, jostling passengers and posting in the window a placard bearing the slogan SILENCE=DEATH. By week's end police had arrested and released more than 400 demonstrators...
...Bush told Panamanian President Guillermo Endara at the White House last week, the delay had been "embarrassing." More than embarrassing, the delay could be dangerous too. In Panama City knots of protesters already gather daily outside the presidential palace to decry the lack of action on the economy. One placard told Endara and associates that YOU'VE BETRAYED...
...message was hard for Moscow to miss. A sign in Russian on a pillar of the government offices read, OCCUPIERS, GO HOME! Another placard urged SOLIDARITY WITH THE LITHUANIAN PEOPLE. Representatives from the restive Baltic republics were on hand to wave their national banners alongside the flag of the short-lived Georgian Republic...