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Basque terrorist group ETA threw a "message bomb" into the Spanish general-election campaign. That was how Pasqual Maragall, Socialist President of the regional government of Catalonia, described the video statement by two masked ETA members that the separatists were suspending their campaign of bombing and killing - but only in Catalonia. Analysts speculate the ETA move is designed to divide Spain's main parties in their shared approach to terrorism and to try to draw Catalonia into the Basque conflict. The announcement is politically embarrassing for Maragall, because it followed a recent secret meeting between the leader of his governing...
...SERBIA Breaking the political deadlock following December's parliamentary elections, moderate nationalist Vojislav Kostunica accepted the post of Prime Minister in what will be a minority government. The coalition, including Kostunica's Democratic Party of Serbia and three smaller parties, will rely on the support of Slobodan Milosevic's Socialist Party of Serbia. The deal blocks the hard-line Serbian Radical Party from taking power...
Rarely has politics made stranger bedfellows than the allies who came together in Serbia last week. Vojislav Kostunica - leader of Serbia's largest centrist party and the man who defeated Slobodan Milosevic in 2000 to become the last President of Yugoslavia - struck a deal with Milosevic's own Socialist Party (SPS) to secure the position of Serbian Prime Minister. Milosevic himself, on trial in the Hague for war crimes, will have no influence on government policy, but what many regard as an unholy alliance is prompting fears that Serbia is lapsing into its bad old nationalistic habits. Kostunica's Democratic...
...first focus would be on greater participation, greater decentralization, greater transparency. Secondly, we need to modernize our entire social-welfare system. Thirdly, my major priority is to make Greece a knowledge society. This means a huge transformation of our educational system. YOU BEGAN YOUR CAMPAIGN BY APOLOGIZING FOR THE SOCIALIST GOVERNMENT'S RECENT MISTAKES. WHY? I'm very proud of what the government has done. We focused on becoming part of the euro, developing infrastructure, strengthening the economy. However, there were other priorities that we did not address with the same vigor. What I'm saying...
Global transformers this spring include, according to Palmer’s description, “renowned historian Howard Zinn,” who is mostly renowned for his socialist screed A People’s History of the United States. MIT professor Noam Chomsky, euphemistically described by Palmer as a “social critic,” compared President Bush’s counter-terrorism efforts to Nazism. Among other idealist guests is “Alfie Kohn, the nation’s leading critic of ‘standardized testing as ethnic cleansing...