Word: perpignan
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...mainstay of London pro club Wasps, Raphael Ibanez, as well as hirsute lock-forward Sébastien Chabal of Sale. And scores of players from Britain and Ireland play in the French league, where they'll soon welcome among them South African full-back Percy Montgomery, set to join Perpignan. Following the Cup, French fly-half Frédéric Michalak will make the reverse trip to take a job with South Africa's Natal Sharks; while the rapid rise of Argentina as a real contender has been due in large part the experience gained...
...terrorism and to try to draw Catalonia into the Basque conflict. The announcement is politically embarrassing for Maragall, because it followed a recent secret meeting between the leader of his governing partner, Josep Lluís Carod-Rovira of the Republican Left party, and two ETA leaders in Perpignan, France. (ETA has killed more than 800 people throughout Spain over the past three decades, more than 50 of them in Catalonia.) Carod-Rovira denies negotiating for a cease-fire - or anything else - but was forced to resign as Maragall's deputy after news of the meeting was leaked...