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...were clearly thought up long before they walked into the room, which is filled with plenty of gray hairs and laugh lines. Richardson ventures into an odd sidebar about how former Dallas star Victoria Principal was the first person to purchase a ticket for New Mexico?s private space port; he asks if people get the ?Dallas? reference, saying, ?I?m not that old.? A blogger harrumphs: ?We?re not that young...
...major bloodshed. It was partly at Mandela's urging that Mobutu relinquished his dictatorship. But early last week the South African leader's effort appeared to have collapsed, after Kabila failed to appear for a meeting with Mandela and Mobutu aboard a South African naval vessel docked off the port of Pointe Noire. Mandela, who had been host aboard the same boat of a May 4 conclave between the two men, then angrily returned home, telling Kabila that if he wanted to meet he would have to travel to Cape Town. Within hours Kabila was there--a sign both...
...sabotage the presidential elections, the country's most powerful rebel group, known as the FARC, have made their presence felt in the run-up to the vote. Rebels have blockaded highways with burnt-out buses, bombed an oil pipeline and cut power to the country's most important port city. They are urging voters to cast their ballots for the candidate who has the most "coherent proposal for peace," implying anyone but the hardline Uribe...
...latest attacks appear to have been driven more by frustration and an ideology of armed resistance than by thoughts of criminal gain. While it is "very difficult to draw a line between the criminals and the so-called liberators," according to Anyakwee Nsirimovu, a human-rights lawyer in Port Harcourt, "You do now have groups that articulate certain policies and ideas and principles." Those principles - the oil belongs to us; give us development and compensation or get out - have been cemented by the Nigerian government's handling of the crisis. Dokubo-Asari was little known when he began, say activists...
...raid on a house. A young man tells the police that he won't go with them to the station and warns: "If you fire [shoot at] me, I fire you." "There is overwhelming community sympathy for what they are doing," says Ledum Mitee, a human-rights campaigner in Port Harcourt, who describes the Delta's problems as "a crisis of frustration," which he hopes can be solved without violence. "[The militants] are seen as people who can stand up to the oppressors." Mitee heads the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (mosop), the group founded by Saro...