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...this particular Astérix was not content with having captured the French imagination. He quickly parlayed his McDonald's raid into a kind of radical celebrity that has made him the most recognizable global icon of the anti-globalization movement. And he didn't do it by staying on his sheep farm. Bove put in a star appearance at the trashing of the World Trade Organization talks in Seattle late in 1999, and last month helped a group of peasants wreck a Monsanto research farm in Brazil, to protest that company's promotion of genetically modified crops. Bove...
...uprising, he moved to the country in 1975 with his wife to join a small farmer movement against the planned expansion of a military base. In 1987, he launched his Confederation Paysanne organization, which organizes small farmers to take actions in support of traditional French agriculture - such as the raid on McDonald's in Millau...
...also suspects that the projected $5.6 trillion budget surplus won't fully materialize to pay for the cuts. If it doesn't - and if Bush keeps his promises to hike spending for health care, education and missile defense - the tax cut will end up being paid for with "a raid" on Social Security and Medicare, Democrats warn...
...INDONESIA Taking No Chances Government troops shot and killed the military leader of the separatist movment in Aceh province while police in Jakarta sought to crack down on a militant Muslim group. An army spokesman said Aceh rebel leader Abdullah Syafei, his wife and five others died during a raid on his jungle base on Sumatra Island. In Jakarta, police detained Mujahidin Council leader Abu Bakar Ba'asyir for questioning about possible terrorist links...
...pointed out, however, that in case of an air raid, it would not be likely that many students would have time to get to the libraries...