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BOSTON—About 2,000 janitors employed by the city’s largest janitorial company went on strike last night after negotiations broke down earlier last month...
Yesterday’s strike is part of the nationwide union campaign called Justice for Janitors, which aims to secure health insurance and higher wages for all workers and their families. Currently, only full-time workers receive such benefits...
...attack on the Akshardham Temple in Gujarat started familiarly enough when two men in their early 20s arrived at the vast temple complex carrying automatic rifles, ammunition and grenades. Tactically it was almost identical to last December's strike on the Indian Parliament, but 13 hours later, when an Indian commando siege on the barricaded terrorists had finished them off, the carnage was even greater: 31 dead, over 70 wounded and a nation again shattered in the midst of a fragile attempt to rebuild after religious pogroms in March killed thousands in Gujarat. The temple gunmen were carrying leaflets...
...That didn't stop hard-liners from howling for swift justice or Muslim families in Gandhinagar fleeing their homes, anticipating the worst as conservative Hindu leaders called for a mass strike. Vajpayee, however, has been ruing the events of the spring in speeches around the world. Statements from Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders blamed Pakistan?not Muslims?to dilute religious overtones. To ensure the peace, this time the state deployed 3,000 soldiers to the area. The measured tones frustrated some coalition members?"Our Prime Minister only cares about international opinion," griped Kamleshji Maharaj of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad...
...Sunday morning, the office of military intelligence had accepted the government position that it was a terrorist strike. And despite having inspected the crater that night and concurring with an Italian officer from ISAF that a crude bomb had been planted, the general's staff said the device was a misdirected rocket...