International – Page 561

Specter of Iraq haunts Tony Blair

March 11, 2004

Iraq has become Banquo’s ghost at the feast for Tony Blair, but unlike Macbeth, this time Blair cannot see the ghost and everyone else can. Despite trying to shift the agenda of British politics back to...

Leftist seeks Salvadoran presidency

March 11, 2004

As El Salvador’s March 21 presidential election draws closer, recent polls indicate that Schafik Handal, the candidate of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), has a chance of winning the presidency. Handal, 73, is the...

Bushs war on travel to Cuba

March 5, 2004

Opinion The Bush administration has gone out of its way to make visiting Cuba almost impossible. Last May, the Treasury Department announced that it was scrapping the people-to-people travel program put in place under the Clinton...

Whats behind the French headscarf ban

March 5, 2004

Opinion Since Sept. 11 the spotlight has been on religion as a potential cause of divisions and conflict. Governments are divided on how best to deal with religious freedoms and the religious minorities within their borders;...

U.S. military bases cast shadow across Japan

March 5, 2004

ATAMI, Japan – Muneyoshi Furugen has lived in the shadow of the U.S. bases on Okinawa all of his life. He speaks in a calm and deliberate manner with a small smile. Yet underneath, when he...