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...English people, such royal reminders in the flesh of what King George and Queen Mary might have been last week focused fresh loyalty, love and devotion upon what they are. Last week, for every Socialist town council in Great Britain that refused to spend a ha'penny on the Jubilee, there was a score of Socialist town councils that were spending pounds. Best seats from which to watch the Jubilee procession sold for as much...
...violence now? ETA wants to prove it is still operational despite the string of defeats and the deepened revulsion toward terror since March 11. "Before the parties sit down at the table, ETA wants to show it's coming from a position of strength," says Gemma Zabaleta, a Socialist M.P. in the Basque parliament. "The I.R.A. planted bombs while the governments negotiated." But observers like Gustavo de Arístegui, a Popular Party member of the Spanish parliament from the Basque Country, cast doubt on such comparisons: he argues that the I.R.A. followed Sinn Fein's political lead, whereas Batasuna...
...indeed, not even Otegi is. What he advocated in November was broad political talks among all groupings in the Basque Country, while ETA negotiates with the Spanish and French states on disarmament, prisoners and victims of violence. He hasn't mentioned olive branches since this month's bombings. The Socialist government in Madrid has rejected Otegi's notion that negotiations can begin without a renunciation of violence from ETA. Yet Basques who condemn ETA don't believe these bombings were meant to scupper talks. Rather, they were a way of keeping the radical base loyal while inching toward negotiations...
...lime to cover decomposing corpses awaiting burial. President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has suspended all logging and promised severe punishment for lawbreakers, in the face of yet another reminder of how hazardous it is to fool around with Mother Nature. - By Anthony Spaeth; Reported by Nelly Sindayen Early Poll PORTUGAL Socialist President Jorge Sampaio announced he will dissolve Parliament and call early elections. He said he no longer had confidence in the four-month-old administration of Social Democrat Prime Minister Pedro Santana Lopes, who assumed power in July when former PM José Manuel Barroso left to head the European...
...crowd of 30 assembled at Holyoke consisted primarily of dissatisfied members of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) and advocates of the local chapter of Socialist Alternative. A few of the more visible activists handed out campiagn literature, while most of the protestors walked in a large circle chanting...