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TONY BLAIR The Prime Minister paid dearly for sending troops to join what many Britons called "Bush's war." Blair, shown outside his children's room at 10 Downing Street, had to watch hordes march past the residence in protest. His reply? "People say you are doing this because the Americans are telling you to do it. I keep telling them it's worse ... I believe in it." When Saddam was captured, Blair called it a "time for celebration but also a time ...to unify...
Democratic factions tend to be sedimentary. The oldest Old Democrats are blue-collar economic populists like Dick Gephardt, who also tend to be pro-military, churchgoing and socially conservative. In the 1970s they were supplanted by radical-liberal activists, refugees from the 1960s protest marches who tended to be antiwar, antipoverty, passionate about civil rights and civil liberties and more secular than the lunch-pail crowd. Bill Clinton's New Democrat movement was an information-age reaction against the two previous generations--a free-trade, business-friendly revision of traditional Democratic economics and a socially conservative reaction to the excesses...
...keyboards and mice that they say bear the IBM logo walked off the job last week to demand the legal minimum wage of $73 a month and the legal overtime rate of 66¢ an hour instead of the 34¢ they received. Since independent unions are banned, they took their protest directly to the government, spending a night outside city hall. The next day their employer, a Hong Kong firm called Max Infosystems, raised salaries but cut meal subsidies by the same amount, according to one of the strike's organizers, Zou Quansheng...
...November 17 terrorist organization, including its leader, Alexandros Yiotopoulos, who were convicted for a series of murders, bombings and robberies during a 27-year reign of terror. Four were acquitted, due to lack of evidence. The court reconvenes this week for sentencing. MEANWHILE IN ITALY ... Basta! In a protest against "trash TV" - the game and variety shows featuring scantily clad dancers that make up much of the prime-time schedule - a Milan viewers' association launched a three-day nationwide television strike. To encourage Italians to get up off their sofas, venues including museums, theaters and restaurants offered a discount...
...practiced by the heads of both countries. For the Stop the War Coalition to have assembled hundreds of thousands of people in London to demonstrate peacefully on a weekday was no mean achievement, yet the Bushes were able to truthfully claim that they had hardly been aware of any protests. This was possible only because British authorities ensured that the demonstrators were kept out of the Bushes' range. And then, having cleverly outfoxed the protesters, the politicians added salt to the wound by extolling the virtues of free protests in democratic nations, pointing out that no such freedom had existed...