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Bernace’s “Havana Nights” fête will be held at New York’s Umbrella Lounge on September 8, mere days before he faces Robert Jackson in a September 13 Democratic primary...
...option of peaceful nuclear-power development. Instead, the North has tried to turn the talks into an international forum on U.S. military disengagement from South Korea. Although Washington has not based nuclear weapons in the South for nearly 15 years, Pyongyang is insisting that the U.S. drop its defense umbrella, hence severing the long-standing military alliance between the two countries. And if that step were taken, clearing the way for a peace treaty between the U.S. and North Korea, would Kim abandon nuclear weapons? The North is promising nothing...
...between generations and economic classes. In an effort to find a common front, 22 Muslim leaders and scholars issued a joint statement last week. They called the London attacks "utterly criminal, totally reprehensible, and absolutely un-Islamic." Sir Iqbal Sacranie, who heads the Muslim Council of Britain, an umbrella group with some 350 affiliated institutions, traveled to Leeds to talk to worshippers in one of the city's biggest mosques. Yet the visit, designed to heal wounds, was not a complete success. The Guardian reported that young men criticized Sacranie - who was recently knighted for "services to the Muslim community...
...Hammersmith, teenage girls chattered brightly on the bottom deck and finally exited in a fit of giggles. It was almost business as usual. On any other day the sharp knock at the back of the bus as it approached Piccadilly Circus might have been interpreted as something mundane: an umbrella hitting the floor, a high heel?s clatter. Today it provoked a panic for one woman seated in the back row of the lower floor. She looked around anxiously for a minute or so and then surged towards the doors, pushing past those standing. Locked in traffic, less than...
Whatever the outcome of the Idaho case, there is no question about violence committed by Identity believers elsewhere. Robert J. Mathews, who left Aryan Nations, Butler's umbrella organization for racists, and formed the Order, died in a 1984 gunfight with federal agents after a crime spree; other Order members drew prison terms of up to 100 years. In Arkansas last year, a heavily armed camp of another Identity group, the Covenant, the Sword and the Arm of the Lord, surrendered to state and federal officers who confiscated a large arms cache and 30 gal. of cyanide. The leader...