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...events in question followed mass protests by poor and indigenous Bolivians against Sanchez de Lozada's plan to export natural gas to the United States via Chile. By October 11, 2003, La Paz was suffering from a fuel shortage because of the blockades in the impoverished highland city of El Alto. On that day, Sanchez de Lozada issued Supreme Decree #27209 which sent the military to escort gas trucks to La Paz. The following week, according to witnesses, the military fired indiscriminately and without warning in El Alto neighborhoods...
...Security Council efforts to ransom American hostages held in Lebanon. One of Perot's assistants dubbed the GM payoff "hush-mail." Shareholders, meanwhile, were outraged that GM paid about $60?or twice the going market rate?for each of Perot's series E shares. One stockholder, Abraham Duman of Highland Park, Tll., filed a suit against GM, claiming that its directors had violated their fiduciary responsibility by paying such an enormous sum to Perot...
...there is no guarantee that Morales will be treated like a conquering hero for very long. "Recuperation" originally meant kicking out the foreign companies, in the view of residents of El Alto, the highland impoverished city neighboring La Paz and the center of the "Gas Wars," the 2003 and 2005 protests calling for nationalization that forced out two presidents. Since Morales' plan seems more practical, they offer their support - but only if there is something to show for it, and soon...
...DEWAR'S: With its slick Brand Centre, featuring an auditorium, multimedia displays and historical exhibits, Dewar's is the Disneyland of whisky companies. Together with Aberfeldy, the working distillery next door, the center makes up Dewar's World of Whisky, tel: (44-1887) 822 010, one of the Central Highlands' main tourist draws. The onsite store sells everything from CDs and books to ties and baseball caps - as well as bottles of Dewar's famous White Label blend. OLD PULTENEY: Mainland Scotland's northernmost distillery, tel: (44-1955) 602 371, is located on a nondescript road in the fishing town...
Everyone in Assynt [EM] a small district in the north-western Scottish Highlands [EM] knows Robbie Mackenzie. He's a poacher, and once served four months in prison for killing 49 deer in one weekend. Mackenzie is right at home in the landscape, with the double-humpbacked mountain of Suilven and the Abhainn na Clach Airigh River rushing through the moorlands. But last August, as he strode out to bag his first stag of the season, everything seemed unfamiliar. For the first time in his 42 years, Mackenzie didn't have to look over his shoulder. For the first time...