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...pages a day, carried nine stories on its front page yesterday, including pieces on a court battle over New York wine sales, Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s welfare reform position and an Associated Press story about the discovery of an ant colony stretching from Italy to Spain...
Since his Mideast mediation mission was announced a week ago, the region has waited for Colin Powell's arrival in Israel. Waited impatiently as the Secretary of State's meandering journey took him to Morocco, Egypt, Spain and Jordan before arriving in Jerusalem on Thursday. "Don't you think it was more important to go to Jerusalem first?" Morocco's King Mohammed VI said in an unusual public rebuke during Powell's first stop. Many commentators, both Arab and Israeli, saw in Powell's tarrying a deliberate strategy by the Bush administration to give Ariel Sharon more time to finish...
...doesn't help Spain's case that many Gibraltarians still remember the Franco era. In 1969, upset by a constitutional amendment that added the referendum requirement, the Spanish strongman closed the border. The move, unreversed until 1985, hurt both sides, splitting families with branches in Spain and Gibraltar and putting hundreds of Spaniards, who had worked on the Rock, on the dole. Franco's strategy "put back our cause by decades," says a senior Spanish diplomat. "All it did was create a siege mentality and bring them closer together instead of closer to Spain." An E.U. aid offer, worth...
...continued promises to put this issue to a vote, skeptics wonder whether a settlement, then rejection of a settlement, has been London's short-term plan all along. Even if it falls short of removing a thorn in Anglo-Spanish relations, Britain would fulfill its duties, first to Spain and the E.U. ("We tried"), and secondly to Gibraltar ("We kept our promise...
Chief Minister Peter Caruana boycotted the last round of talks because he wanted to go as Gibraltar's representative, not as part of Britain's delegation. He says that if Britain and Spain want to make a deal on Gibraltar down the road, they'll find a way, no matter what the local constitution says. "They do not intend to put everything to referendum before formally agreeing it between themselves," he told TIME. For most Gibraltarians, though, sovereignty seems a non-issue, at least in daily life. They'll offer strong opinions when asked, usually by outsiders, but among themselves...