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...Senate has voted to give him the Gold Medal that is Congress's highest honor) looked like a garden-variety politician scrambling out of a tight spot last week, as stories gushed out of Whitehall saying Blair had once again crumbled under pressure to postpone a euro referendum, probably to 2005 or beyond. Subsequent leaks hinted the vote could be earlier - which was spin designed to keep the pro-euro campaigners Blair has been stringing along since 1997 from despairing and cutting off euro campaign funds. To hose down fevered accounts about the volcanic feud between Blair and his longtime...
...Blair has been facing since the five tests were concocted: if the economics look bad he can't campaign; if he doesn't campaign the poll numbers won't move; if the poll numbers don't move, his allies lose heart and the chances of ever winning a referendum dissolve. So on June 9, Blair must acknowledge the euro is off for now while still managing to juice up its supporters - a balancing act that is getting old. Mark Leonard, director of the Foreign Policy Centre in London, a think tank with close ties to Labour, says that "six years...
...Roman Catholic who cycles each day to his job as a hospital-equipment repairman, is right when he calls the MCL Cuba's first real dissident force in 44 years - the first, anyway, to convince tens of thousands of Cubans to forget their fear and sign petitions seeking a referendum on democratic freedoms. That effort won Payá the European Union's Sakharov Prize for human rights last December; but it also moved Castro, 76, to respond with a wave of arrests. Castro has been careful not to jail the internationally popular Payá, who likens his movement...
...gone from Iraq. North Korea suddenly agreed to the American demand for multilateral talks about ending its nuclear-weapons program (even though Pyongyang promptly announced the program was proceeding). Even proud Iran was making conciliatory noises. The newspapers in Tehran were hot with argument over a proposed public referendum on whether to re-establish diplomatic relations with the Great Satan. The idea was floated by former President Ali-Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the cleverest politician in the country, one who has positioned himself between the reformers and the mullahs, with links to both camps...
...Soweto's Winnie Mandela Family Museum. Following the verdicts, Madikizela-Mandela said she would resign from all her public positions. Hell No, He Won't Go venezuela President Hugo Chávez's government refused to sign an agreement it had made with the opposition to hold a referendum that could force Chávez to resign. The Organization of American States brokered the agreement to end a two-month general strike organized by Chávez's opponents earlier this year. But Vice President José Vicente Rangel said the planned vote was unconstitutional because it would come before...