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25 Apr 2005 05:02:05 AM |
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Blair's evasions will catch up with him
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1469458,00.html
We've had enough of the prime minister's half-truths on Iraq. Let us
see his legal advice in full
Richard Norton-Taylor
Monday April 25, 2005
The Guardian
There's nothing new in it, government ministers said yesterday as they
responded to an apparent leak of the attorney general's advice on the
legality of the war. That's the best they could do on an issue that,
not surprisingly, they have tried so desperately to suppress during the
election campaign.
But this is not simply a question of ministers dismissing the advice of
their civil servants on a matter of policy. This is an issue of war and
peace, of committing British troops to battle, an issue that goes to
the heart of the authority of the UN and to the conduct of
international relations. "An unlawful use of force on such a scale
amounts to the crime of aggression," wrote Elizabeth Wilmshurst, the
Foreign Office's deputy chief legal adviser, in her resignation letter
of March 18 2003, the eve of the invasion of Iraq. "Such action," she
added, was "so detrimental to the international order and the rule of
law."
Richard Norton-Taylor
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/bcbf12a37adbf34c
Land of the dead
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1469373,00.html
On April 26 1986, the No 4 reactor at the Chernobyl power station blew
apart. Facing nuclear disaster on an unprecedented scale, Soviet
authorities tried to contain the situation by sending thousands of
ill-equipped men into a radioactive maelstrom. In an extract from a new
book by Russian journalist Svetlana Alexievich, eyewitnesses recall the
terrible human cost of a catastrophe still unfolding today
Monday April 25, 2005
The Guardian
When a routine test went catastrophically wrong, a chain reaction went
out of control in No 4 reactor of Chernobyl nuclear power station in
Ukraine, creating a fireball that blew off the reactor's 1,000-tonne
steel-and-concrete lid. Burning graphite and hot reactor-core material
ejected by the explosions started numerous other fires, including some
on the combustible tar roof of the adjacent reactor unit. There were 31
fatalities as an immediate result of the explosion and acute radiation
exposure in fighting the fires, and more than 200 cases of severe
radiation sickness in the days that followed.
Chernobyl
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http://www.google.com/search?q=Chernobyl&num=100&hl=en&lr=&tab=nw&ie=UTF-8&sa=N
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India's 'lost tribe of Israel' awaits a second exodus
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/story.jsp?story=632717
By Simon Denyer, AP Writer, in Aizawl, India
25 April 2005
All together, they dip their middle fingers into plastic cups of grape
juice, calling out in Hebrew the names of the 10 plagues they believe
their God sent to curse the ancient Egyptians. Plastic Israeli flags
and photographs of Jerusalem adorn the chipboard walls.
Saturday's feast could have been a celebration of Passover anywhere in
the Jewish world, but this is no ordinary celebration and these are no
ordinary Jews.
In India's remote hill states of Mizoram and Manipur, thousands of
people who believe they belong to one of the 10 "lost tribes" of Israel
are celebrating what they hope is their last Passover here before
ending a 2,700-year exodus.
Mizoram
http://news.google.com/news?q=Mizoram&num=100&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?q=Mizoram&num=100&hl=en&lr=&tab=nw&ie=UTF-8&sa=N
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Manipur
http://news.google.com/news?q=Manipur&num=100&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?q=Manipur&num=100&hl=en&lr=&tab=nw&ie=UTF-8&sa=N
http://www.google.com/search?q=Manipur&btnG=Search+Directory&hl=en&cat=gwd%2FTop
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In Telecast, Frist Defends His Effort to Stop Filibusters
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/25/politics/25justice.html?pagewanted=all&position=
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
Senator Bill Frist stepped up his threats to change Senate rules to
circumvent blockades of judicial nominees while calling for "more
civility in political life."
Bill Frist
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A Boldface Name Invites Others to Blog With Her
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/25/technology/25arianna.html?pagewanted=all&position=
By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
Arianna Huffington is starting up a Web site, the Huffington Report,
that will feature blogs from celebrities like Arthur Schlesinger, David
Mamet, Nora Ephron, David Geffen and Walter Cronkite.
Arianna Huffington
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Unexpectedly, Capitol Hill Democrats Stand Firm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/04/24/AR2005042401482_pf.html
By Charles Babington, Page A01
Democrats were supposed to enter the 109th Congress meek and cowed,
demoralized by November's election losses and ready to cut deals with
Republicans who threatened further campaigns against "obstructionists."
But House and Senate Democrats have turned that conventional wisdom on
its head.
A Scathing Chairman Dean Finds Republicans 'Evil,' 'Corrupt' and
'Brain-Dead'
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/04/24/AR2005042401160.html
By Brian Faler, Page A06
Howard Dean may not be running for anything, but his elbows appear to
be as sharp as ever.
Howard Dean
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Playing With Fire
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7615252/site/newsweek/
Forget the new zillionaires. There are many good reasons to resist the
China craze.
By Henry Blodget
Newsweek International
May 2 issue - When the ducks are quacking, the saying goes, Wall Street
feeds them, and right now we ducks are quacking for a steady diet of
China-related investment opportunities. If China's economic miracle
ends the way many do (e.g., Japan), we will blame Wall Street for our
misery. But we should proceed with our eyes open.
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