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...border. On Friday, French police arrested three men in Châtellerault, about 300 km southwest of Paris, possessing what outgoing Spanish Interior Minister Angel Acebes said were "prepared and assembled bombs." The end of the Aznar era also creates what Zabaleta calls "a very propitious atmosphere for a truce." In his speech last week presenting his program, the incoming Prime Minister stressed a word that had been anathema to Aznar: dialogue. While promising a "battle without quarter against all terrorism," Zapatero clearly signaled a new approach to demands for greater autonomy from the Basque and Catalonian governments. This...
President Bush, delighted to hear of Osama bin Laden’s offer of a truce with Europe, will be disappointed when his advisers explain that America is not, in fact, part of Europe. He will also be crushed when he learns that Europe is where France...
...Broken Truce? IVORY COAST Former rebels and the opposition withdrew from the power-sharing government after 25 people were killed in clashes between security forces and demonstrators protesting President Laurent Gbagbo's failure to fully implement a January, 2003 peace agreement that had ended five months of civil war. Gbagbo's government called the protests an "armed revolt"; the opposition said it was a peaceful march...
...each successive replacement leadership. (Rantisi has already escaped one attempt on his life.) For Hamas, that means adapting the leadership structures to make them less dependent on the survival of specific individuals. Under those circumstances, efforts by the PA, Egypt and others interested parties to broker some form of truce may become that much more difficult. And that, in turn effectively ends any prospect in the immediate future for a peace process that requires Hamas sanction, leaving the PA as a lame duck and the Islamists ascendant in the street...
...that Cahill brought about a truce was to bring in a cadre of Kerry's longtime Boston operatives. They had been shut out by her predecessor, Jim Jordan, who had made no secret of the fact that he regarded most of them as small-time hacks. They held Jordan in equal regard and let Kerry know at every back-channel opportunity. Jordan had also butted heads with media consultant Bob Shrum, who has rarely been on the losing side of an internal battle...