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...jail sentences. It will come into effect just as the presidential election campaign kicks off. "Of course you'll elect me," the Batska declared earlier this month. "What else can you do?" Western nations have criticized Lukashenko's regime, but have done little else. Last April, while attending a nato meeting in Lithuania, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called Belarus "the last remaining true dictatorship in the heart of Europe," and said "it is time for change to come." Lukashenko and other officials have been barred from traveling to the U.S. and Europe, and last month, the European Union...
...massive defense establishment. Legal and constitutional constraints still severely limit Japan's offensive military capabilities. Japanese law does not allow it to consider an attack on its allies as an attack on itself, something that is standard in most mutual defense pacts, and which is the very cornerstone of NATO. The Japanese Prime Minister does not have anything rivaling the independent military powers that the U.S. President and many other heads of government possess. For example, although Koizumi orchestrated Japan's missions to the Indian Ocean and Iraq, each required a special act of parliament. And despite his popularity, Koizumi...
...splatterfunk,” will be joined by upstarts Five Star Outlaw, The Thickness, a?nd the Adam Sloane Trio. 18+. The Middle East Upstairs. 9 p.m. $8. (CEJ)Monday, Oct. 31Bloodhound Gang. The Crimson does not condone anything the Bloodhound Gang does, including extraordinarily inappropriate uses of the NATO phonetic alphabet, but it will admit to having spent most of its junior high years listening to “The Bad Touch.” Opening are Electric Eel Shock, Program the Dead, and Cold Read. Avalon Ballroom, 15 Landsdowne St., Boston. 6 p.m. $15 advance...
...including six last week. That brings the overall total since 2001 to 196 deaths and 601 wounded. The surge in violence comes at an inopportune time for the Pentagon, which wants to cut the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan and turn over more of the combat burden to NATO, whose role is now limited to peacekeeping. Four days spent with Turner's Delta Company, 2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, in the badlands of southern Afghanistan provides a glimpse of how one group of soldiers sustains its morale and mettle while up against an often ghostly...
...European leaders had agreed in 1999 that Turkey's undeniable progress in human rights and democracy ought to be rewarded with formal talks on full membership. Washington was cheering in the background, arguing that the acceptance of an overwhelmingly Muslim country, long a bulwark of NATO, into the EU would show other predominately Muslim states the benefits of reform and democracy...