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...France remains surprisingly reluctant, given its diplomatic lead in pushing for the cease-fire. Malloch Brown said he was "disappointed" that Paris agreed to send only an additional 200 soldiers, far short of the 2,000 to 4,000 troops the U.N. hoped for. The opposition Socialist Party was in rare agreement with U.S. President George W. Bush in suggesting that France should pony up more troops. As the first part of its modest offering deployed in Lebanon over the weekend, French officials bristled at the suggestion that Paris wasn't pulling its weight. A French general commands the existing...
...last week as Fidel recovered from abdominal surgery, has always been there. His brother's designated successor, he was beside Fidel from the moment the two, with Raśl's acquaintance Che Guevara, launched the revolution that overthrew the dictatorship of Cuba's Fulgencio Batista in 1959. Having joined the Socialist Youth as a university student, Raśl was red before Fidel, who fought Batista in the name of nationalism and only later made his way to communism. Early on, the younger brother gained a reputation for ruthlessness, overseeing the execution of scores of Batista soldiers in 1959, an image that would...
Castro: Our main objective is to preserve the revolution: our independence and the achievements of socialism. We have not renounced socialism as our common objective. Now we are introducing reforms to develop the country during the ``special period'' because the socialist camp has disappeared. We have lost more than 70% of our imports. We were left without credits, without capital, without technology and without markets...
...other country would have been able to endure what we have endured. No other socialist country has been able to endure the collapse of the socialist camp or the loss of its imports in the midst of a blockade. We have been able to do so because of the revolution. No other country would have been able to endure such a situation without a system similar to ours because it would not have been able to guarantee an equitable distribution of resources...
...transformation was swift in coming. Hamas' electoral landslide in Palestine just six months ago marked the political death of Yasser Arafat and the secular, vaguely socialist and entirely nationalist movement he represented. Hamas is fighting not to create a 23rd Arab state but, as its charter explains, to recover "an Islamic Waqf." Meaning? Territory claimed under the Islamic precept that "any land the Muslims have conquered by force ... during the times of [Islamic] conquests" more than a millennium ago belongs to Muslims forever because "the Muslims consecrated these lands to Muslim generations until the Day of Judgment...