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...extreme-left again. Two decades after French police busted the radical group Action Directe, which waged a bloody urban guerrilla war during the 1970s and 1980s against French business and military interests, French authorities on Tuesday nabbed a group of anarchists suspected of having sabotaged the nation's high-speed rail system over the last several weeks. The arrests aim not only to put an end to the spate of vandalism that had wreaked havoc and panic among French travelers for the past two weeks; they may also derail any violent plans French anarchists might have been preparing with like...
...France. A total of 20 people were arrested, and by mid-day 10 of those had been officially placed under investigation for participating in the spree of potentially deadly sabotage. In most of those incidents, hooked metal bars had been attached to high-voltage electricity lines that power high-speed trains; when the bars were snagged by passing locomotives, they plowed a path of destruction through high-voltage power lines. A total of six incidents of sabotage were recorded since Oct. 26, including a coordinated operation Nov. 8 that targeted four different rail lines in northern France and caused delays...
...effects of the measures will take time to work through the system, with the largest impact not likely to be felt until 2010. "I think that we'll see a couple of weak quarters in 2009," Simpfendorfer says. While the size of the package was welcome, "it's the speed of its implementation that is really important," he says. "My concern is that the contraction in demand will take place before the fiscal policies have time to take effect." To an economy heavily dependent on exports, that period between stimulus and response could have significant implications. With...
...yards on 17 carries, and Olawale rushed for a third-quarter touchdown. “We knew coming into the game that he was going to be their guy,” senior linebacker Eric Schultz said. “We feel like we have a lot of team speed on defense. So I feel like we did a good job of containing him, but he’s an up-and-coming player, hats off to him. He’s a load, too, to try to bring down on a tackle.” Olawale?...
...think speed dating is great, but it should be preceded by two drinks,” Tu said...