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...unemployment rate that hovers close to 20 percent. Spiraling unemployment has been the downside of the free-market policies implemented by President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, and has swung voters more solidly behind the PT. It's an issue that Lula, a self-taught blue collar worker and trade unionist before becoming the beacon of the Brazilian Left, understands better than any of the other candidates - and certainly better than most international investors. "If international economists were always right, all we would need is to hire 10 Nobel Prize (winners) and let them run the country," he said in a recent...
...former trade unionist who used to hit the campaign trail looking like the late Jerry Garcia (of the Grateful Dead) has even trimmed his beard and begun wearing suits. "Today I'm more aware, more prepared, more mellow," Lula said in a TIME interview. "That radical PT doesn't exist anymore...
...unexpected statement of apology to the more than 600 "noncombatants" it killed in its campaign to unite Ireland. The statement said that the current peace process in Northern Ireland "includes the acceptance of past mistakes and of the hurt and pain we have caused to others." The I.R.A.'s Unionist opponents complained that the apology did not go far enough. They suggested that it was intended to fend off British government sanctions against Sinn Fein, the I.R.A.'s political wing. The British government welcomed the I.R.A.'s acknowledgment of the pain it had caused so many people. ITALY Anti-Semitism...
...I.R.A. members are also thought to have a hand in the sectarian clashes that have recently gripped Belfast. A year ago, three suspected I.R.A. activists were arrested in Colombia after reportedly sharing their talents for urban terrorism with left-wing guerrillas there. All this makes Ulster's pro-British unionists fear that republicans could return to full-scale violence if they thought it would profit their cause. Growing unionist disquiet about the I.R.A.'s true aims has led British Prime Minister Tony Blair to prepare a warning for the I.R.A. and other armed groups this week. O'Neill's apology...
...Alex Maskey as lord mayor of Belfast - the first time the political wing of the I.R.A. has gained control of the city's council. The vote came after days of rioting and shootings that injured five people. Both loyalists and republicans blamed each other for the violence. Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble accused the I.R.A. and the paramilitary Ulster Volunteer Force of breaking their ceasefires and asked the British government to restore order. SPAIN Vote Against Terror By a majority of 304 to 16, deputies of the lower house of the Cortes, the Spanish parliament, voted to allow the Supreme...