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Circumstances surrounding Summers’ dispute with the Afro-American Studies professors were only the proverbial straw on the camel’s back...
...Even Britain, which has loyally stood by the U.S. throughout its often lonely battle against Iraq, has no appetite for a new Gulf War. Foreign minister Jack Straw, in an interview with the Independent, makes London's skepticism plain: "I have seen no evidence to support any link (between Iraq and the 11 September attacks). On the general issue of military action, it is only ever contemplated on the basis of very good evidence pointing to that necessity and after a very careful conclusion that military action is the only possible option. On that basis, the only theatre in which...
...sources of oil. (Now is it clear why we are becoming friendly with Russia?) Do you think Saudi Arabia is upset by this? The whole economic structure of the Middle East will change if America gets most of its oil elsewhere. Maybe bin Laden saw this as the final straw: the U.S. once again upsetting the applecart in the Middle East. BILL BURNS Fulton...
...history set out for Manzanar, in California's desolate Owens Valley. In the cavalcade were some 300 Japanese aliens and Nisei--U.S. citizens of Japanese blood...In the unfinished, tar-papered dormitories where they will live until the war ends, they made their beds on mattress ticking filled with straw...Some projects with which the Army may keep its guests busy: laying broad-gauge track on the railway down the valley; driving a highway across the Sierras...In San Francisco's Little Tokyo, store fronts were plastered with huge signs, proclaiming, "Evacuation Sale." In one window, under the sign, hung...
...President or engender hostility toward him. In Harare, 35 people protesting proposed changes to election procedures were arrested by police on charges of public violence. SPAIN Is Britain Rock-Weary? Signaling a new readiness to explore giving up Britain's sovereignty of Gibraltar, the U.K. Foreign Secretary Jack Straw met Spain's Foreign Minister Josep Pique in Barcelona. Straw said the Rock, held by Britain since 1704, would be returned to Spanish control if its 30,000 inhabitants voted in favor in a referendum. Gibraltar's elected Chief Minister, Peter Caruana, boycotted the talks in protest at the decision...