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...injustice and worldwide frustration. Nicolas Gessner Paris Taking On Terrorists I am glad that the U.S. military forces finally killed terrorist leader Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi [June 19]. But does that solve the problem of terrorism? No. President Bush must begin to lead by example instead of force. Democracy cannot be exported from a land where human rights are abused and ignored. Democracy is not a coalition of willing armed forces but a coalition of people. The world's problems today can be solved only by inculcating the maxim that the pen is mightier than the sword rather than...
...real," says Javier Elzo, a Sociology Professor at the University of Deusto, in Bilbao. Elzo, who has been under threat from ETA for more than 10 years and dropped his bodyguards the day after the group announced its current truce, believes ETA has finally recognized that it cannot achieve its objectives through violence. "The [harsh] reaction of Basque society after breaking [the 1998 cease-fire], the police and judicial pressure, and the March 11 train attacks in Madrid [by a radical Islamist cell] have made ETA understand that there is no room for armed activity...
...share that optimism and want to see more evidence of ETA's commitment to stop the violence. "We won't have a real peace process until ETA puts down the weapons for good," says Maite Pagazaurtundua, a Socialist councilwoman whose brother was killed by ETA in 2003. "Society cannot renounce justice and dignity" in the pursuit of peace, she says. That sentiment is also shared by a wide spectrum of ETA victims who fear the government may be tempted to show excessive leniency and give in to ETA's political demands in exchange for an end to violence. "What...
...cannot stand idly by while the rule of law, the moral order and the integrity of our institutions ... are destroyed by this bogus President." DANILO LIM, Philippine Brigadier-General, in a Feb. 24 videotaped address in which he withdrew his support for President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. Lim and several others may face court-martial after the tape implicated them in an alleged plot against the President...
...Football and Flag Waving The article "Germany's New Pitch" [June 12] reported on Germany's willingness to create a new national image and present it to the world while the country is host of the World Cup. Public-relations campaigns alone, however, cannot explain the flag mania that has gripped the country. That Germans seem to have discovered their flag and its stylish possibilities does not give cause for concern to our immediate neighbors, who were invaded during the course of a more toxic burst of nationalism. The current popularity of the national colors seems rather...