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/ 12 September 2003
It is a suggestive coincidence that this week marks both the anniversary of 9/11, and the 30th anniversary of Pinochet’s infamous putsch in Chile. If baffled Americans are still trying to fathom why a band of extremists flew planes into the WTC, they need look no further than the bloody Chilean coup and its aftermath.
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/ 12 September 2003
Research done by Nasa and the National Geographic Society reveals that the most plentiful things in the world are (in order) bits of sand, locusts, professional tennis tournaments, lemmings, dormice and Baldwins.
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/ 12 September 2003
Minister of Defence Mosiuoa Lekota has denied that a blazing row over the restructuring of the Department of Defence has erupted between South African National Defence Force chief General Siphiwe Nyanda, on the one side, and Lekota and his director general January Masilela, on the other.
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/ 12 September 2003
Remembering 9/11, many will wearily note that the world changed that day and that newspapers are still full of the reverberations. There would have been no Iraq war and Blair wouldn’t be looking quite as weak as he is. The American press betrays the same pattern, but there is one important and astonishing absence.
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/ 12 September 2003
The debate over the memorial to those who died in the Twin Towers attack expresses the perplexities and contradictions that the event brought in its train. Designer and developer contend over the extent to which commerce, in the shape of valuable business space in the most single-mindedly commercial city on the planet, should be sacrificed to the need to mark the loss of those who died.
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/ 12 September 2003
Ariel Sharon arrived this week in New Delhi bearing arms. In doing so, the first visit by an Israeli prime minister to the subcontinent threatens not only to accelerate the arms race between nuclear rivals, India and Pakistan, but also marks the emergence of a new United States-backed coalition of the willing.
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/ 12 September 2003
This week’s surprise 100-basis point-cut in the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) repurchase rate came against the background of optimism about prospects for the global economy, including an upbeat review by the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
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/ 12 September 2003
Hundreds of Zimbabwean youths are being brainwashed and abused by the ruling Zanu-PF as instruments for maintaining its hold on the country, say Southern African church leaders who have grouped under an organisation called the Solidarity Peace Trust.
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/ 12 September 2003
In myriad subtle ways the daily lives of the residents of Muncie, Indiana, have changed since September 11 2001. This 70 000-strong town of many churches and increasingly little industry gained fame in the 1920s as the subject of an academic survey of the American heartlands called Middletown.
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/ 12 September 2003
Up to 10 000 of the poorest Mexican farmers and trade unionists marched on the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) opening meeting this week, demanding that small farmers be protected from international big business and that trade rules should not determine issues of food and health.