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...retaliation by loyalists", says Dolores Kelly, a moderate nationalist member of the Northern Ireland Assembly. Retaliation by loyalist paramilitary groups - who carried out bomb attacks and shootings on Catholic civilians and republican terrorists during the Troubles - could spell disaster for Northern Ireland. A return to the tit-for-tat killings of the past would almost certainly spell the end of the power-sharing government that the dissidents oppose. (Read: "Policeman Shot Dead in Northern Ireland...
...Guinea-Bissau Assassination Tit for Tat João Bernardo Vieira, the longtime President of this volatile West African nation, was assassinated by army troops on March 2 in apparent retaliation for the killing of a general hours before. The speaker of parliament, Raimundo Pereira, was sworn in as the state's interim President and is required to call elections within 60 days. Since winning independence from Portugal in 1974, Guinea-Bissau has been racked by poverty and upheaval, becoming in recent years a key transit point for cartels smuggling drugs from South America to Europe...
Sooner or later, most administrations make some version of the Sun King's mistake. "L'état, c'est moi," Louis XIV of France is said to have declared--"I am the state." To criticize becomes downright unpatriotic...
...mostly people griping about the shortage of bread or the price of gasoline. I improved my Arabic but little more. Once, however, something very intriguing came up on the air: the movement of tanks out of barracks. I was elated, jumping to the conclusion that a coup d'état was in the offing - and I'd be the one to break the news to Washington. As it turned out, the tanks were getting ready for a military parade...
Sooner or later, most presidential administrations make some version of the Sun King's mistake. "L'état, c'est moi," Louis XIV of France is said to have declared - "I am the state." To criticize the man becomes downright unpatriotic...