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...kill Lindh "strengthened their case" against Mijailo Mijailovic. First detained two weeks after the Sept. 10 killing, Mijailovic denies involvement in the attack. Big Blow to ETA FRANCE AND SPAIN Police arrested 29 people suspected of links to the Basque terrorist group ETA in northern Spain and five in southwest France. Spanish Interior Minister Angel Acebes described the detentions as a serious blow that weakens ETA's ability to operate...
...including the south of France - tend to be more integrated into families than in the north. So the heat wave there was accordingly less deadly. Nice, Marseilles and Toulouse have preserved what Mantion calls "Latin attitudes," which consider older people valued and active members of society. The southeast and southwest had around 46% higher fatalities in the first three weeks of August compared to last year, versus 102% in Paris - a far more private and anonymous place. For now, though, with funerals still going on, it is easier to focus on the poor performance of the country's leaders than...
...first records are broken in the southwest, where temperatures reach 41C in the Bordeaux region and on the Atlantic coast. AUG. 10 Patrick Pelloux, head of France's emergency physicians' association, announces that some 50 people have died of heat-related illnesses in the Paris region in the past four days. He criticizes the General Directorate for Health for characterizing the deaths as natural. AUG. 12 Pelloux says some 100 people across France have died from the heat. Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin, vacationing in Combloux, a village in Haute-Savoie, dismisses criticism of his handling of the crisis...
...concluded that the forest had to be made more fire tolerant, and that meant restoring it to its original structure. For guidance, he and his colleagues turned to old photographs and historic texts, all of which confirmed that prior to European settlement, the ponderosa pine forests of the Southwest looked very different, with "every foot...covered with the finest grass," wrote a traveler who passed through the area in the mid-1800s, "and unencumbered with brush wood...
...even more detailed guide to what these forests originally looked like came from records kept by early foresters, who in 1909 established a series of experimental plots across the Southwest. Among these was an unlogged eight-acre plot in the Coconino that was set aside as a long-term control. Covington and his colleagues made 1876 the reference year for this plot--it was the year the last fire occurred--and then proceeded to reconstruct the way the forest had looked at the time. The difference between then and now, they found, was dramatic. In 1876 the plot boasted just...