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ITALY General Strike Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi risked a showdown with the labor movement, vowing to press ahead with reforms that have already brought the three main trade unions out on the streets. After talks with the government collapsed, leaders of the health, transport and industrial unions representing 12 million workers called the first general strike in two decades for April 16. Unions object to government proposals that would limit the rights of dismissed employees. The government says the plan will promote labor flexibility and is in line with European practices...
...official was more jolted by the new reality than Dick Cheney, dispatched by Bush on an 11-country road show last week through the Arab world to promote the Administration's plans to force a showdown with Iraq. The Vice President is known as a first-class listener, able to convey that others are being taken seriously instead of being gamed. He has never needed those skills more. From London to Amman to Cairo, Cheney was drummed with the same angry refrain: the U.S. must intervene in the conflict now, demand that Ariel Sharon pull all his troops...
...Italy's largest union, said the terrorists "will not intimidate us," confirming that plans to hold Italy's first general strike in a decade are still on for next month. United in their condemnation of the Red Brigades, the union movement and the government are nevertheless headed for a showdown...
Then in the most important league showdown of the season, Harvard narrowly averted disaster against top Ivy challenging Cornell, who had hung tough just a half-game back in the standings. Up 62-50 with 2:37 left, Harvard tried to run out the clock too early and let the Big Red back into the game. It took two more overtimes and a Peljto fainting spell before Harvard finally...
Those friends know the Administration needs them for a potential showdown with Iraq. Any U.S. operation would likely require the use of bases in Saudi Arabia or an alternate Gulf state such as Qatar or Kuwait. Diplomats in the region told TIME many Arab leaders say they will not offer support to an anti-Iraq campaign while the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is boiling. Expressing skepticism about the U.S. war on terrorism in an interview with TIME, Abdullah said that "America cannot fight this war alone" and that he does "not believe that the war on terrorism applies to Iran...