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...Even on the controversial issue of British citizens being held as unlawful combatants, Blair reacted as if it were an easily adjudicated matter among friends. And his attitude paid off. (The next day the White House announced it is suspending legal proceedings against all Britons being held at Guant?namo Bay until officials from both countries discuss the cases.) For Bush, that even temper demonstrates far more than grace under pressure. "I've heard it called cojones," says a senior White House official. "Blair's got the fortitude. He's a man of principle and character. He's never wavered...
...peace has long since disappeared. The spring of 2003 has seen a brutal crackdown on dissidents and independent journalists. Hijacked crop dusters and military planes are landing with increased frequency at the airport in Key West. In April, three young men who had hijacked an aging ferryboat in Havana Bay were executed by firing squad. This week, just days after Compay Segundo's death, two separate boat hijackings left 3 dead and a 10-year-old boy with a gunshot wound to the head. On Wednesday, Celia Cruz, the Cuban-born "Queen of Salsa" whom Castro barred from ever returning...
...rivals circling him, Davis is defiant. He dismisses the recall campaign against him as "partisan mischiefmaking by Republican right-wingers." In an interview with TIME last week, he said he would not resign, adding, "It's like the [Oakland] Raiders wanting to get a second game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers because they didn't like the way they played in the Super Bowl. That's not the way life works...
...million Amount sought by a Pakistani man who was held at Guant?namo Bay for 10 months and is now suing the U.S. government...
...leader, the entire British political establishment - Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat - united last week to pressure the Prime Minister into doing exactly that. The reason: the Pentagon's announcement that two Britons held for months at Camp Delta, the U.S. military prison for suspected terrorists at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, won't be returned to Britain for trial, despite repeated requests by Foreign Secretary Jack Straw. Instead, the two will soon face American military tribunals whose due-process standards are derided almost universally throughout Europe as shameful. Among the shortcomings of the tribunals, which are designed to choke...