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/ 10 May 2002

Watch and tremble

FALLOUT from Pim Fortuyn’s assassination will be felt not just in Holland but across the world. Where there was harmony, now there is discord. Where there was faith, now there is doubt. In Holland, that byword for flat, tedious stability, politics has grown hot and turbulent.

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/ 10 May 2002

US channels $200-million aid to Israel

A REPUBLICAN-led committee of the House approved $200-million in aid for Israel on Thursday despite earlier objections by President George Bush’s administration. Unable to head off the move, Secretary of State Colin Powell persuaded the House Appropriations Committee’s Republican leaders to add $50-million in humanitarian help for Palestinians. Both provisions were approved by voice vote. […]