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Summer Of Fear SPAIN Officials worry that a series of three bombings, which injured 14 people, mark the launch of a summer campaign by the Basque terrorist group ETA. The first two explosions happened at tourist hotels in the Costa Blanca resorts of Alicante and Benidorm. After a phoned warning to a Basque newspaper by a man claiming to speak on behalf of ETA, police evacuated more than 100 staff and guests from the hotels. Four policemen were wounded in the Benidorm attack, while the nine injured in Alicante were mainly foreign students and their teachers at an adjacent language...
...Albaicín hill, they ran into opposition. Even though the mosque site lay between a church and a convent of cloistered nuns, the local authorities suddenly designated the area as residential and scotched the plans. Legal battles ensued and tensions mounted, not just in Granada but elsewhere in Spain, where antipathy towards mainly Muslim immigrants from North Africa is never far from the surface, even though the country likes to think of itself as a model of convivencia (peaceful coexistence...
...mosque and topped it in part with a metal grill. "We shall ignore it," says Ruiz, who sees the new mosque and its associated Islamic cultural center as a place where understanding between the two religions can be improved. There's much work still to do. Many of Spain's 500,000 Muslims are unhappy about the presence of Spanish troops in Iraq; and shortly after the mosque was inaugurated, Granada hosted a conference on "Islam in Europe," where 2,000 participants heard Spanish Muslim radical Umar Ibrahim Vadillo call for the destruction of the U.S.-dominated capitalist system...
...percent received less than $5,500 a year. So even in Europe itself, these subsidies have hastened the demise of the small, individual farmer and decimated the countryside’s unique social fabric which the EU was purportedly trying so hard to preserve. In some countries, such as Spain, Italy and Greece, the subsidy policy has been so pernicious that the active rural population has decreased by 80 percent since the 1950s. The European consumer wasn’t really helped either, and the Economist estimates that EU agricultural subsidies add over $650 a year to the grocery bill...
Unfortunately, this first step towards reform is rather timid and was hampered by the selfish lobbying of France, Germany, Spain and Portugal (the countries that previously received the most net subsidies). Commodities such as beef, cereals (the single largest recipient of funds) and mutton will only partially decouple, while subsidies for olive oil, tobacco, cotton and sugar will still be determined solely on production...