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...European Community over British contributions to the B.C. treasury and succeeded in winning sizable rebates. She lambasted the Soviet Union with cold war invective. She coldly withstood the threats of Irish Republican Army hunger strikers, even when ten of them died of starvation in 1981 at Belfast's Maze prison. She pursued an austere, rigidly monetarist economic line, and when members of her Cabinet protested about the pain it was causing many Britons, she forced out a number of these "wets," her term for the irresolute. Says former Labor Prime Minister Sir Harold Wilson, 67, who retired from politics last...
...ominously present dictatorship—which itself gets overthrown by an equally blurry political force—the novella revels in its vagueness, making its story a universal one of dehumanization. Framed as the memoir of torturer Antonio Rojas Martens, a member of the secret police now in prison, it tells the story of his involvement in the murder of Frederigo and Enrique Salinas.As in his earlier work, Kertész exhibits an understanding of how a distorted and cruel logic arises out of the inhumane. In “Fatelessness,” the young protagonist Gyuri is nostalgic...
...trial, although the date has yet to be set, said Jake Wark, a spokesman for the Suffolk County district attorney, according to the AP. Urban, who allegedly committed the crime after a night of drinking with his friends, was initially sentenced to four to six years in prison. Since 2006, he has been out on bail, having served two years of his original sentence...
...country's Easterners and Westerners - groups that until then had rarely even defined themselves along regional lines. Dozens died in the ensuing mob violence. An estimated 150,000 of the nation's 1 million citizens were forced to flee their homes. Reinado was briefly jailed but escaped from prison and since then he and many of his forces have remained on the run, engaging in occasional firefights with Australian led-peacekeepers, whose East Timor mission continues six years after the country's independence...
...unarmed Iraqi man and guilty of helping to plant an AK-47 on him to make the killing look justified. It is a sentence that demonstrates the Army's willingness to hand down serious punishment to soldiers who kill noncombatant civilians. The jury ordered Vela to 10 years in prison, a reduction to the rank private, forfeiture of all pay and benefits and a dishonorable discharge. But the penalty was also seen as a concession to the extraordinary pressures under which soldiers decide whether to take or preserve life. The maximum possible sentence was life without parole; the prosecution...