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...factions scrambling for power in a near civil war that seems to get bloodier by the day. Iran has been intent on filling the regional power vacuum left by the toppling of Saddam. Besides continuing to back Hizballah, which it actually created in 1982 after Israeli forces launched a wide-scale invasion of Lebanon to destroy the PLO, Iran has been extending its influence inside Iraq and could end up the dominant foreign influence there when the U.S. ultimately withdraws. So confident - or reckless - is the new Iran that Tehran seems to be going to the brink with the West...
...fear and unspoken pain. ETA's goal of Basque independence from Spain and France was pursued, from the outset, through selective attacks against police and military forces but became more and more indiscriminate - a bomb in a Barcelona supermarket in 1987 caused 18 deaths. Eventually, the violence threatened a wide swath of Basque society, including businessmen, journalists, judges, professors and artists, among others...
...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 are we going to negotiate with ETA?" says Pilar Elias, a PP councilwoman in the town of Azkoitia, whose husband...
Collins, however, has both the standing and the desire to promote a third way. At 56, he is an unassuming 6-ft. 4-in. stork with a reedy voice, a techie's el cheapo digital Timex and - his one touch of flash - a wide silver ring emblazoned with a cross. "I think the majority of people in the U.S. probably occupy a middle ground but feel under attack by the bombs thrown from either side," he says. "We haven't heard very much about the way these views can be rendered into a very satisfying harmony. And I do hope...
...they generate and the conduits they provide into lucrative European competitions. All one can do is to try and mitigate some of the more obvious excesses. Down at the bedrock level of the bogus injury and the attempt to get one's opponent sent off, a yet more eyes-wide-open cynicism occasionally prevails. Of course players dived for penalties, the former England international footballer Ian Wright said recently. "So why don't we? It will happen to us again, so we should." Happily, this kind of attitude has a corrective. It can sometimes be found in sportsmen themselves...