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  1. The war against the disadvantaged

    against another. Governments may call this grand policy the "war on drugs" or the "war on ... crime", but it's not. It's a war on neighbourhoods and people designated as ... estate for Algerian migrants on the outskirts of Paris, the governments of all the major industrialised ...

  2. MAY DAY around the world

    s correspondents report. Cuba: focus on Elian HAVANA — The Plaza de la Revolucion and the Avenida del Paseo were ... hello over the microphone, as though testing it. It was Fidel speaking to Juan Miguel on a cell phone! ... including that of Vietnam, which has just celebrated the 25th anniversary of the end of the US war against ...

  3. VIETNAM: The inspiration hasn't faded

    VIETNAM: The inspiration hasn't faded When, on April 30, 1975, a single tank of ... only ended a decades-long war, it also ended any idea of United States invincibility. The people of ... message dimmed? 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly spoke to four veterans of the anti-Vietnam War movement about the ...

  4. EAST TIMOR: Xanana: 'I will not be president'

    Timorese independence leader Xanana Gusmao told those attending the launch of his autobiography here on May ... personal reflections, starting from the beginning of the war for East Timor's independence from ... the beginning of the event, and there was a stirring performance by Tiddas and a Timorese women ...

  5. SRI LANKA: Army faces serious defeat

    assistance. Some 35,000 Sri Lankan troops have been trapped on the Jaffna peninsula since the critical ... Elephant Pass military base fell to the LTTE troops on April 24. As of May 5, the LTTE was reported by BBC ... increasingly Sinhala-chauvinist Buddhist clergy in the south has called on the Indian government to send its ...

  6. PHILIPPINES: Moro liberation fighters under siege

    on May 3 by the Revolutionary Workers Party of the Philippines (RPMP). The situation in our country, ... confrontations between the Philippines Armed Forces (AFP) and the Moro Islamic Front (MILF). On April 30, the ... cannot continue the talks while its camps are surrounded by elite troops of the AFP. Starting on April ...