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...Alberto Alesina, Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy and Chair of Economics...
...Force planes dropped 500-pound bombs on their strongholds in the island's thick jungles. It was the most intense fighting in the south in at least 30 years and by week's end, 22 soldiers had been killed, along with 60 rebels. Southern Command Chief Lieut. General Alberto Braganza said that several dozen American troops had been sent in from their base in the southern city of Zamboanga, although he insisted the Americans wouldn't be fighting, but merely acting as intelligence trainers. A rebel attack on the capital city of Jolo was feared, but Braganza said...
...says Patxi Zabaleta, leader of Basque nationalist group Aralar and a former defense lawyer for ETA prisoners. But Batasuna refuses to criticize its armed brethren. The attack "responds to the perverse logic of this conflict and it shows that a solution is needed," says Pernando Barrena, a Batasuna spokesman. Alberto Surio, political commentator at San Sebastián's daily El Diario Vasco, says the attacks show that the terrorists "want to negotiate from a position of strength, to establish their own conditions." But bombs, alas, won't lead to negotiations; that would really be perverse logic...
...Torture and Terrorists In his column "Where's the Outrage?" about the U.S. Senate confirmation hearings on Attorney General-designate Alberto Gonzales [Jan. 17], Joe Klein wondered why there was no outrage over the abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib, Guant?namo and elsewhere or over Gonzales' complicity in the Bush Administration's decision to use severe physical-interrogation techniques. A similar apathy was the response to the excesses of the Patriot Act, the question of immigrant rights, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's ineptness and arrogance, the need for affordable health insurance and, most tragic, the endless slaughter in Iraq. There...
CONFIRMED. ALBERTO GONZALES, 49, as the U.S.'s first Hispanic Attorney General; by a 60 to 36 vote in the Senate, with the opposition coming from Democrats who objected that as White House counsel Gonzales helped write U.S. policies that appeared to permit the torture of some foreign prisoners; in Washington...