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...Many stayed because they were not up to the ordeal and uncertainties of evacuation," Williams continued. "It is hard to leave your home and everything you own, not knowing what you will return...
Mayor C. Ray Nagin said late Monday that employees of certain key businesses and institutions would be allowed to return to the city as soon as today to begin preparing for returning evacuees. Among the essential details that must be dealt with: replenishing meat and vegetable supplies at supermarkets, as well as fuel at the region's gasoline stations. Gustav prompted the largest evacuation in the state's history. Now, many fear a repeat of the headache-inducing "contra flow" - the technocratic term that refers to both lanes of roads and highways being used to direct traffic in the same...
...hefty dollar figure includes a large portion in investment projects that will benefit Italian companies, including a long planned major highway to link Algeria to Tunisia and Egypt. Gaddafi also announced that Italy will get preferential deals on his country's oil and gas reserves, and threw in the return of an ancient Venus statue taken to Rome during colonial times as a sign of goodwill...
...hand-over) is an Islamic Party man, and they fear the police force will be infiltrated by their extremist Sunni enemies. "If the Islamic Party continues to pressure the government to remove the Awakening members from the security forces ... then there is a high likelihood that Anbar will return to violence," Sheikh Natah says...
There are critics, of course, who see no real change as the ultimate outcome of such political maneuverings. indeed, some fear that the lack of a strong Prime Ministerial candidate will only signal a return to the "revolving door" of national leaders that have made policy-making extremely difficult in Japan...