The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Burundi voiced alarm today at reports that there has been an attempted coup in recent days in the African country and that some political figures have since been arrested. The UN Operation in Burundi, known by its French acronym ONUB, warned in a communiqué to the press issued in Bujumbura,
... these events constitute a threat to the "commendable achievements of the peace process" in Burundi...
the capital, that these events constitute a threat to the "commendable achievements of the peace process" in Burundi.
Expressing concern about allegations of torture, ONUB said it has asked the Burundian authorities to allow access to the detainees and called on the Government to make available any information about the events to the international community. Last month, citing "factors of instability," the Security Council extended ONUB's mandate through the end of the year. The mission was established in May 2004 as Burundi emerged out of 12 years of civil war.
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Alarmed at 'reports'? Aren't they supposed to be out in the field, detecting and stopping such breaches of the peace before they can lead to a coup?
Saluting the citizens of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) for their participation in historic, largely peaceful elections on Sunday, the Security Council today appealed to them to maintain the "same spirit of civic responsibility" while they await the results. The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC), the sole authority permitted to release the vote count, has said a provisional tally will not be available before 20 August.
"The Security Council urges all political actors in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to continue to work to ensure that the electoral process proceeds in a free, transparent and peaceful manner, in accordance with the agreed timetable," said the statement, issued by the Council's current President, Ambassador Nana Effah-Apenteng of Ghana. "The Council calls on political leaders to refrain from making inflammatory speeches." The statement comes one day after the Secretary-General's Special Representative to the DRC, William Lacy Swing, called on candidates not to proclaim victory before the vote count is complete.
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The University of Liberia student leadership says it believes that the July 26 fire disaster at the Executive Mansion was an assassination attempt on the life of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. The Acting President of the University of Liberia Student Union (ULSU), Martin S. Kollah said their doubts would only be cleared if a speedy investigation into the incident were conducted to establish the fact.
"We wish to express surprise for the unfortunate situation that visited the Executive Mansion during the celebration of our Independence Day on July 26," he said. The UL Student Leader said it was unfortunate and grossly confusing to note that fire gutted the Executive Mansion at the time when the President and some foreign guests had converged for a reception.
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Seems an awkward way of trying to assassinate somebody, but she ashcanned her national security minister and her presidential affairs minister; so I guess she takes it seriously.
Dukuly (the presidential affairs minister) was affiliated with Ulimo-K (Alhaji Kromah), but if he was involved I'd suspect it was for personal financial reasons instead of factionalism.
When I was there (long ago!) a lack of careful planning or attention to detail was ubiquitous. A fire that didn't hurt anybody might really have been a murder try.
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Santeria followers sacrifice doves for Cuba, Fidel
Fri Aug 4, 2006 8:56am ET
By Jeff Franks
MIAMI (Reuters) - The white dove looks warily at shopkeeper Oscar Osorio as he pulls it from a cage and holds it in his hands.
"I don't think he trusts me," Osorio says while he gently rubs the dove's feathers and spreads its wings for a visitor to admire. "I think he knows what's coming."
and PETA is too far away
The bird has reason to be nervous, because the illness of Cuban leader Fidel Castro has moved adherents of Santeria to appeal for divine help in hastening either Castro's demise or his recovery, depending on which side of the Florida Straits they live.
What happens to all of Fidel's body doubles?
Santeria is the voodooish Afro-Cuban religion that uses animal sacrifice to communicate with the gods, which makes these tough times for favorite sacrificial creatures such as chickens, goats and, in this case, doves.
As many as 3 million people in Cuba and 60,000 people in Florida are believed to be involved in Santeria, according to religious experts.
Osorio said about 20 people a day are coming into his "botanica" in Miami's Little Havana section to buy birds, powders and jewelry for rituals in which they ask the gods to please finish off Castro so they can return home....
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That's pretty ironical, considering that el dealer maximo, after having expelled all christian missionaries a few years back, actively promoted santeria as a way to counter catholic influence.
Rantburg's house doc is on assignment vacation this week, so here is a link to informed speculation as to El Commandante's condicion. The comments are worth reading too, here is an interesting one:
CAROL HERMAN wrote:
Don't forget that Chavez (of Venezuela, got to Cuba, to see the last of Castro, walking. When he toured Che's old abode.
Then, Chavez ran to Tehran. And, Damascus.
I'll bet America has a large enough Navy, that we have ships in the Meditterainian. Ships in the Red Sea. Ships in the Straits of Hormuz. And, our Coast Guard around Cuba.
Meanwhile, Chavez thinks he's bought Cuba, all on his own. Since Venezualan oil money has been propping up Castro's bogus regime, since the Soviets bellied up.
Actually, I'm not a doctor. But a Star Trek fan. And, "He's dead, Jim," comes to mind. No wonder Castro's not walking! Nor is he conscious. So one reason he's in bed, not walking, is that you don't shake coma patients awake, so they can take a toodle. Or have their legs drapped over the side of the bed.
Perhaps, we need to hear from a forensic specialist?
And I'd like to note as well that August 22 is drawing closer. Also see this. I also had a post within the past few months that the Shi'a community in Cuba was pushing for a official mosque. They claimed about 70 members, which I calculated could be a pretty good nucleus for an effective terror cell.
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Here's an interesting article on how the death of dictators through history have been announced or not announced.
Is Castro Dead?
Mojitos all around! And brace for the hangover.
By Mario Loyola
In Communist societies, the fall of a dictator is often marked by a public statement about the dictators failing health that (a) doesnt make sense, and (b) is not delivered by the dictator himself. Thats what we saw on Monday night, when Cuban dictator Fidel Castro issued a letter to the people in which he explains that he had suffered intestinal bleeding due to stress, needed an operation, and would be in bed for several weeks. The missive was coldly Orwellian in how little it said about Castro and in how much detail it gave about those who were now temporarily assuming power.
The next day another Cuban official read a more entertaining letter in which Castro purports to explain (again in pure Newspeak) that because of the imminent threat from the United States, the details of his health are now a state secret. But theres only one detail about Castros health that could possibly be a state secret: that hes dead.
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Carol's comments, while entertaining, are slightly unhinged - see other blogs - Capt'ns Quarters and Ace's HQ (IIRC)in particular. Think JM on meds
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that said - Sea's right, there's nothing right or normal in how this Castro situation (R or F) is being handled. I'm in for the dead pool. Can't figure what's up with Raul tho'....standard procedure in the Dictator Governmental Transition Manual is a public appearance and calling out the troops to maintain order....
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I think Castro has pulled off A Weekend at Bernies. That is what is right.
SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has sent a get-well note to Cuba's Fidel Castro, who has undergone stomach surgery, the North's KCNA news agency said on Thursday. Castro, who has lead Cuba for 47 years and is the world's longest-ruling head of government, has not been seen in public since temporarily relinquishing power to his brother this week. "I sincerely wish you a speedy recovery to your health so that you can excellently continue to carry out the Cuban revolution and the great mandate given to you by the people of Cuba," Kim said in a telegram to Castro dated Aug. 2, KCNA said. Kim, known as the "Dear Leader" at home, has ruled the North since the 1994 death of his father and the founder of the communist state, Kim Il-sung. North Korea's official media often writes articles expressing solidarity with the Castro government.
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Cuba's communist government sent a clear message to its people Thursday: Nothing is going to change. "The revolution will continue" was the mantra chanted on state-run television and displayed in government newspapers three days after Fidel Castro temporarily ceded power to his younger brother Raul while recovering from surgery.
"¡La Revolución es estable! Viva larga la Revolución!"
The revolution will continue...
The acting president was still nowhere to be seen. Nor was the elder Castro, who turns 80 on Aug. 13. Yet the news media all are run by the state lined up Cubans to express confidence both in Fidel Castro's ability to recover quickly and in Raul Castro's competence to govern in the meantime. "Certain of your rapid recovery, always toward victory!" a graduating class of Interior Ministry cadets chanted in a collective greeting to Fidel Castro, published on the front page of the Communist youth newspaper Juventud Rebelde. "Every Cuban trusts Raul, and every one of our leaders," an unnamed woman said on state television's midday broadcast. "We are certain that the revolution will continue."
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"The decadent Americans will utterly fail in their mad imperialist efforts to prevent hams from being imported for our great leader. Your glorious starvation in the name of Socialism goes on, and will be protected by our invincible People's Army. As usual, anyone attempting to eat a full meal without permission of the State is a capitalist traitor.That is all".
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Funny thing is, every once in a while I stumble on a Joe-ism that I can actually follow too. Of course, I begin to question myself, and then, he never fails to live up to his old standards and all is restored, lol! Just give him a few hours, as he's in Guam, it'll be a while before he wakes up and starts posting again.
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Question is. Is this Joe on his meds or Joe off his meds?
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JM's like a Van de Graaff generator. It takes a while to charge up, then, BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZAPP!!!! [*ozone smell*]
it goes off, followed by another charging cycle.
Alimentary, dear Watson.
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"The revolution will continue"
You have to believe that the average Joe Cuban has to be fed up of endlessly hearing that shit.
George Bush called on Cubans yesterday to work for democratic change in their Communist-ruled country, in an overt call for change after Fidel Castro temporarily relinquished power because of illness. President Bush's first public statement since the temporary hand-over of power to Fidel's brother, Raul, on Monday was bound to anger Cuba's Communist Party, which has long accused the US of interference in Cuban affairs.
Only the Communist Party... can be the worthy heir of the trust Cubans have placed in their leader...
The US President promised full and unconditional support to those on the Caribbean island seeking democracy, adding: "We have repeatedly said that the Cuban people deserve to live in freedom."
The Communist Party emphasised that it would stay in control no matter what happened to Fidel, but failed to settle doubts over who was in charge of the island. In a typically cryptic message, the main Communist newspaper, Granma, printed part of an old speech by Raul, which said: "Only the Communist Party... can be the worthy heir of the trust Cubans have placed in their leader."
But there was still no sign of Fidel or his brother. "Most people here, after 47 years of Castro's rule, are completely disassociated from the political process and have a fear of change," said one Western diplomat, who asked not to be identified. "That is certainly the message the government gives out to the people. They say, 'look at the plan that Bush has for you'. The government sees everything through the prism of the US."
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But there was still no sign of Fidel or his brother.
Maybe they're waiting for Disney to finish the animatronic replacements...
Yes, this is a cheap ploy to get some insight from our French and Euro readers. Have you read the book? Is it any good?
The political musings of presidential front-runner Nicolas Sarkozy have become the surprise summer reading hit for French holidaymakers, with five print-runs and 275,000 copies produced within two weeks of publication, XO Editions publishing house said Wednesday. Precise sales figures for "Temoignage" -- "Testimony" in English -- have yet to appear, but L'Express magazine, which draws up a weekly listing based on data from 150 bookshops, has placed it at the top of its non-fiction best-sellers.
"I thought it would be a success, but this is completely beyond my expectations. It's colossal," XO president Bernard Fixot told Le Figaro newspaper.
Sarkozy, who is both interior minister and president of the ruling Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), uses the book to set out a loose collection of personal reflections about the problems facing France and how best to solve them. He also speaks about his relationship with wife Cecilia -- with whom he has just been reconciled after a separation of several months -- and pays rare tribute to President Jacques Chirac, who is often seen as his political enemy. Ick. But I s'pose that's politix.
The latest polls show that Sarkozy, 51, leads the race to win the presidency at next April's election, but only by a whisker ahead of the leading Socialist Party (PS) candidate Segolene Royal. "(Sarkozy) has a 50-50 chance of being the next president. People want to get to know him better, to read a personal book, where he explains who he is, how he works. The book isn't a political programme -- more a kind of 'cards on the table,'" said Fixot. Sarkozy himself chose to release the book just before the summer break, on the grounds that "the only time when the French speak about politics inside the family is during the holidays."
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That's to prove their intellectual bona fides when they try to pick up hotties on the beach. The French are all intellectuals, dontchaknow! I doubt as many as one in ten will actually read the thing.
President Viktor Yushchenko reached across the Orange Revolution's barricades Thursday and nominated his arch rival to lead Ukraine's government out of nearly five months of political paralysis. The deal, reached as a constitutional deadline that expired Wednesday night, creates a "grand coalition" between the pro-Western Mr. Yushchenko's Our Ukraine movement and Viktor Yanukovych's Party of Regions, which favors closer ties with Russia. Ukraine's parliament, the Supreme Rada, is expected to elect Mr. Yanukovych as prime minister on Friday.
We are putting up our tents in the streets again, and we are going to take this to the people...
Critics suggest the accord has betrayed the Orange Revolution and played into Moscow's hands. Some, including Yushchenko's former ally Yulia Tymoshenko, who heads the second largest party in parliament, say they will boycott the Rada and call their supporters into the streets to protest. "We are putting up our tents in the streets again, and we are going to take this to the people," says Yevgeny Zolotaryov, reached by phone. He's the leader of Pora, a small party allied with Ms. Tymoshenko. "This is farewell to Yushchenko, who failed to be a leader to the nation and, frankly, betrayed his voters. It is the end of the Orange Revolution."
But some experts say the bargain may be the best way for deeply divided Ukraine to muddle through without an open political split between its nationalistic, Ukrainian-speaking west and the industrialized, heavily Russified east. "This was not a victory of one side over the other, but a set of workable compromises," says Oleksander Shushko, an expert with the independent Institute for Euro-Atlantic Integration in Kiev. "Some in Ukraine don't want to see any cooperation with Yanukovych at all, but that would deepen the divisions in the country."
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"This was not a victory of one side over the other, but a set of workable compromises"
But with said, I pledge - on the souls of my grandchildren - that I will not be the one to break the peace that we have made today. Don Vito Corleone
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There's nothing in the street
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye
And the party on the left
Is now the party on the right
And the beards have all grown longer overnight
I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
Don't get fooled again
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It's that damned Slavic thing again. A personality split between east and west that tears them apart, over and over again. First they want to be westernized, then they want to be more nationalistic and Asiatic. Then back again.
[A] Trident submarine was damaged after snagging a tow line in the Strait of Juan de Fuca [in Washington state], and the Coast Guard is investigating, Navy officials said. The USS Nevada was submerged when it caught and severed a 500-foot line between the tugboat Phyllis Dunlap and one of two barges being towed from Honolulu to Seattle with a load of empty containers late Tuesday or early Wednesday, Navy Lt. H.K. Sweeney said. A second tugboat was sent to retrieve the barge, Coast Guard Petty Officer Paul Roszkowski said.
Members of the sub's crew felt the impact, and damage was found in a fiberglass part of the sail after the vessel returned to its base on Hood Canal, Sweeney said. The sail is a structure on top of the sub once known as the conning tower. Tow lines commonly dip below the surface of the water, Roszkowski said. "They use the weight of the tow line to help them tow," he said. "You don't want the tow line taut."
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Well, there's one more Captain and command staff who are taking up turkey farming. The rule is that if *anything* bad happens, for *any* reason, it is a career ender.
Damned unfair. But them's the breaks. Too many contenders waiting in the wings for their jobs.
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when it caught and severed a 500-foot line between the tugboat Phyllis Dunlap and one of two barges ........Tow lines commonly dip below the surface of the water
Ok, if the line is 500 feet long, then if the tug and tow were right next to each other, the maximum depth the line could reach would be 250 feet. Figure under way it could be a parabolic curve of maybe 100 - 125 feet max? The sub might expect a fishing trawler to have a net that deep, but would they think a tow line would be? Any sub guys reading today?
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interesting that i have to read the 'burg to find out what happened right out my back door....
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When this happened more than likely both the tug and the barge weren't moving. No motion, no noise. Subs only use active (i.e. pinging) very rarely (under ice, in minefields) plus being in the Sound (no pun intended) probably was a high background noise day. The line was slack enough to hang down to snag the sail at below periscope depth. This would not be a career ender for certain unless the review board found that there was dereliction of duty or just plain sloppiness allowed by the Captain to creep into ship's operations.
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Maybe they can use that Plutonium production reactor as a schoolroom. At least the Kaushab facility has buildings, a fence, a compound, toilets, running water and electricty, something pak "schools" do not
ISLAMABAD: More than half of the state-owned schools in the country lack proper buildings, electricity, water and sanitation facilities, or boundary walls, according to statistics presented by the Education Ministry to the Senate Standing Committee on Education.
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ISLAMABAD: More than half of the state-owned schools in the country lack proper buildings, electricity, water and sanitation facilities, or boundary walls, ..... and many students must walk or ride goats two-four miles uphill both ways!
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I wonder is all the hand wringing apologists who bitch about electricity in Iraq will pay attention to this? Nah, nothing here, move along. So what is the situation is better in Iraq, that's not the point, its about bitching at the slightest thing as long as they suffer from BDS.
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They have 200,000 schools? What's the official population of Paki-waki? Divide in 2 (assuming 50% of the population is school age), and then divide that again by 2 (assume 50% live in muzzie villages where "education" is frowned upon, or they're forced into the madrassas). Something tells me, these #s are skewed.
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Hook up a rotary generator to the kids bobbing their heads in the madrassas...they could export power to the grid
Galileo originated as a Euro-nationalist response to the success of Americas GPS. As the program developed, some in Europe sought to use it as a way to limit and control US military power. This was the heart of the transatlantic frequency overlay dispute that ended with the EU backing down.
The Europeans had registered certain frequencies with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), that were dangerously close to the ones the US planned to use for the future military GPS 3 signal. They were hoping that the Pentagon would have to accept that the use of this signal would be regulated by a joint US-EU committee in which the EU, particularly France, would have a veto power over US satellite navigation warfare.
In essence, the European goal was to insure that if the US went to war against the will of the EU, it would do so without the advantages that its GPS system has given it.
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This is also the program that the EU wanted to sell to the ChiComs last year, until the US was able to convince them otherwise.
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And as far behind the Chinese are to the Americans in space flight, you'd think they'd grasp, we could intercept and destroy their product if and when necessary. As a broadcasting target, closing won't be a problem.
A Navy diver submerged 2,000 feet, setting a record using the new Atmospheric Diving System (ADS) suit, off the coast of La Jolla, Calif., Aug. 1.
Chief Navy Diver (DSW/SS) Daniel P. Jackson of Navy Reserve Deep Submergence Unit (DSU) was randomly selected to certify the ADS suit for use by the Navy.
I feel like the luckiest guy in the world, said Jackson. I am honored and privileged to be the first diver to go down to that depth.
The certification was the culmination of 11 years of planning, designing and testing by multiple agencies to develop the ADS suit, also known as the Hardsuit 2000.
This is the biggest piece of teamwork that I have ever seen in the Navy, said Cmdr. Keith W. Lehnhardt, the officer in charge of the project.
Lehnhardt said the project was a collaboration of so many different organizations, such as DSU, Submarine Squadron 5 and Diving Systems Support Detachment.
Jackson said, I was just a guy tied to a rope. It was the ADS team that made it all possible. They were incredible.
Developed by OceanWorks International from Vancouver, British Columbia, the Hardsuit 2000 was designed to withstand underwater pressure at 2,000 feet. Current models have only been able to go down as far as 1,200 feet.
The suit worked incredibly, said Jackson. It did everything it was intended to do. I always heard that around 1,300 feet, the joints of the Hardsuit 2000 would work even better, and it worked exactly the way they said it would.
Meeting the Navys high safety requirements, the ADS suit was designed and acquired by the Navy to support submarine rescue.
Its specific purpose is to be part of the advance assessment system during a submarine rescue operation, said Lehnhardt. The diver in the suit will see what the damage to the sub is and find out where the survivors might be.
At 2,000 feet, I had topside turn off all the lights, and it was like a star show. The phosphorescence that was naturally in the water and in most of the sea life down there started to glow," Jackson said. "When I started to travel back up, all the lights looked like a shower of stars going down as I was coming up. It was the best ride in the world.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. The Acting President of the University of Liberia Student Union (ULSU), Martin S. Kollah said their doubts would only be cleared if a speedy investigation into the incident were conducted to establish the fact.
SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has sent a get-well note to Cuba's Fidel Castro, who has undergone stomach surgery, the North's KCNA news agency said on Thursday. Castro, who has lead Cuba for 47 years and is the world's longest-ruling head of government, has not been seen in public since temporarily relinquishing power to his brother this week. "I sincerely wish you a speedy recovery to your health so that you can excellently continue to carry out the Cuban revolution and the great mandate given to you by the people of Cuba," Kim said in a telegram to Castro dated Aug. 2, KCNA said. Kim, known as the "Dear Leader" at home, has ruled the North since the 1994 death of his father and the founder of the communist state, Kim Il-sung. North Korea's official media often writes articles expressing solidarity with the Castro government.
Cuba's communist government sent a clear message to its people Thursday: Nothing is going to change. "The revolution will continue" was the mantra chanted on state-run television and displayed in government newspapers three days after Fidel Castro temporarily ceded power to his younger brother Raul while recovering from surgery.
George Bush called on Cubans yesterday to work for democratic change in their Communist-ruled country, in an overt call for change after Fidel Castro temporarily relinquished power because of illness. President Bush's first public statement since the temporary hand-over of power to Fidel's brother, Raul, on Monday was bound to anger Cuba's Communist Party, which has long accused the US of interference in Cuban affairs. 
President Viktor Yushchenko reached across the Orange Revolution's barricades Thursday and nominated his arch rival to lead Ukraine's government out of nearly five months of political paralysis. The deal, reached as a constitutional deadline that expired Wednesday night, creates a "grand coalition" between the pro-Western Mr. Yushchenko's Our Ukraine movement and Viktor Yanukovych's Party of Regions, which favors closer ties with Russia. Ukraine's parliament, the Supreme Rada, is expected to elect Mr. Yanukovych as prime minister on Friday. 
Galileo originated as a Euro-nationalist response to the success of Americas GPS. As the program developed, some in Europe sought to use it as a way to limit and control US military power. This was the heart of the transatlantic frequency overlay dispute that ended with the EU backing down. 
