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...Clinton campaign, which quoted Power in an e-mail to supporters asking for contributions to “show the Obama campaign that there is a price to this kind of attack politics.” Obama’s campaign distanced itself from Power’s statement. At the time, Power said Obama “made it absolutely clear that we just couldn’t make comments like this in his campaign.” A few hours after the publication of her comment, Power announced her resignation from the campaign. She quickly apologized to both...
...lengthy defense statement at the Warsaw regional court, Jaruzelski, who was prime minister at the time as well as the head of the Communist Party, explained his motivation for declaring martial law this way: In 1981, he argued, the Solidarity movement was in the throes of an internal power struggle between radicals and moderates, with Moscow watching closely, having reinforced the Soviet troop contingent stationed in Poland. The Soviets had previously sent troops to crush a popular rebellion in Hungary in 1956, and to brutally destroy a reformist Czech communist regime in 1968, and Jaruzelski was acutely aware...
...effectively ban the global trade in bluefin tuna. A similar campaign to ban ivory has largely succeeded in reviving the world's elephant herds. And both groups plan to end their long connection to ICCAT. "The game is over," said Sebastian Losada, a Spanish campaigner for Greenpeace, in a statement from Marrakech on Monday night. He said the meeting had showed "government and industry ruthlessly bargaining for the last tuna...
...world was quite apt [Nov. 17]. A little over a month ago, while my family and I were having dinner in Coullier, France, and discussing the upcoming election, a British woman overheard us, and very seriously she told us, "The whole world is watching." I regarded the statement as a little overdramatic until I saw how the international community reacted when Obama was elected. I now look back on that night in France and on the night of Nov. 4 and realize that this country has demonstrated to itself and to the rest of the world that it has taken...
...club or farmer involved has to either raise purchased fingerlings to a suitable size (due to the cannibalistic nature of trout) or stock with a suitably sized fish which will not be taken by larger fish or birds. Regarding the "poisoning the trout in its lakes and rivers" statement, it is true that the government has introduced the nem:ba Act, in which the Federation of Southern African Flyfishers has been involved on a consultative basis. A pilot scheme has been put in place on an 18-km stretch of a trout stream in the Western Cape in this regard...