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...some teachers walked off the job for a day and other unions talked of backing the firefighters, who plan another walkout this week if no deal is reached, with strikes of their own. Blair's government was unusually flat-footed in its p.r., sending out mixed messages through multiple spokesmen. First it appeared to bless a 16% raise, then insisted that any increase above 4% would have to come out of "modernization" savings - reforms like joint control centers for police, fire and ambulance; fire trucks with both full-time and part-time employees; and more flexibility in shift work...
...Nobody's expecting Batasuna to go without a fight, and the party's most vocal leader, Arnaldo Otegi, has called on his party's supporters to resist what party spokesmen have called the government's "genocidal strategy." And in an environment of mounting attacks by militant young Batasuna supporters against "Spanish interests" and intimidation of elected officials, many in the Basque Country are bracing for intensified violence. ETA has also threatened to act against those who support the banning of the party - a stance which certainly helps Judge Garzon make his case that the political party and the terror group...
...rhetoric. Eagleburger suggested last week that Perle and Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz were maneuvering to commit the administration to attack Iraq simply to finish what was started in the Gulf War. But Perle and Wolfowitz are not mere loose cannons; they are seen in Washington as the spokesmen of the hawkish element in the Bush administration whose number is thought to include Defense Secretary Rumsfeld and Vice President Cheney...
...Spokesmen for Gore and Tisch refused to discuss private talks between the two. Democratic elders say Gore still has time to catch up in the race for dollars. For now, though, it seems far from his mind. In New York City recently, Gore had lunch at Tisch's Regency Hotel. His old friend was there too--dining with someone else...
...seven major Palestinian cities on the West Bank, whence the culprits in the latest attacks are likely to have come, have been under the control of the Israeli Defense Force for the past three weeks, with residents - and PA security personnel - subject to almost constant curfew. Israeli spokesmen once again blamed the new outrages on the Palestinian Authority, and the Palestinian Authority issued its now standard denunciation of attacks on Israeli civilians. But the Israeli public knows that the PA is no longer the relevant security authority in hotbeds of militancy such as Nablus, Tulkarm, Bethlehem, Ramallah and Jenin...