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LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Five peo
ple were killed and dozens injured in
confrontations across Bolivia as thou
sands of people protested against rising
water rates, unemployment and other
economic problems.
In Achacachi, 80 miles north of the
capital La Paz, farmers blocked roads
and threw rocks at soldiers who re
sponded with rubber bullets and tear gas.
Hundreds of the protesters then stormed
government offices, destroying furniture
and documents and setting fires. Some of
them entered a hospital, dragged an in
jured army captain from his bed and
killed him on the main square.
Army units also fought with Aymaran
Indian farmers who formed road blocks
in Batallas, another Andean town locat
ed 45 miles north of La Paz.
Three soldiers and two farmers were
killed and dozens injured in the con
frontations Sunday. The escalation of
anti-govemment action that began last
week reflected Bolivians’ disgust over
rising water rates, unemployment and
other economic difficulties plaguing this
nation in the heart of South America.
The economic crisis was blamed in
part on the government’s war on cocaine
trafficking. A total of eight people have
died in the weekend clashes.
“The conflicts reflect the poverty un
der which fanners are living and the fact
that the government is not listening to
them,” Bishop Jesus Juaraz told The As
sociated Press by telephone from Acha
cachi, where dozens of soldiers were sent
Sunday evening to strengthen the mili
tary presence.
In response to the violence, the gov
ernment on Saturday declared a suspen
sion of many constitutional guarantees,
allowing the government to arrest and
confine protest leaders without a war
rant, impose restrictions on travel and
political activity, and establish a curfew.
Police were also at the center of
protests in other parts of the country, with
hundreds of officers in La Paz and in
Santa Cruz, the country’s second-largest
city, taking over their own headquarters
and jails and demanding a 50 percent in
crease in pay.
On Sunday in La Paz, police firing
tear gas at soldiers, who fired their auto
matic weapons into the air. No violence
was reported in Santa Cruz, but the army
was called in to control the streets of that
eastern city. An agreement was reached
that ended the strike.
The central city of Cochabamba was
quiet Sunday morning following a day of
protests in which police fired tear gas and
rubber bullets. Thousands of protesters
gathered by the afternoon, watched over
by soldiers flown in from other parts of
the country.
The destruction of more than half of
the country’s coca leaf production has
left thousands of Quechua and Aymara
Indian fanners without a livelihood and
depressed the economy in regions where
cocaine trafficking once thrived.
Leaders of the coca fanners helped
organize the protests that in Cochabam
ba that began a week ago.
That first wave of demonstrations be
gan over a more than 20 percent increase
in water rates in Cochabamba. The pro
testers demanded the suspension of a
multimillion dollar contract with the for
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LONDON (AP) — Hoping to cut down on binge
drinking and pub brawls, the British government pro
posed a novel idea Monday: Allow bars to stay open 24
hours a day.
Scrapping the mandatory 11 p.m. closing time was
the centerpiece of plans to liberalize and streamline li
censing laws that were inspired by fears of munitions
workers getting drunk during World War I.
“Fixed closing times encourage hinge drinking
around last orders,” Home Secretary Jack Straw told
the House of Commons. “The result is lots of people
hitting the streets — and sometimes each other—at the
same time.”
Under the government proposals, released as a dis
cussion paper, any pub, licensed cafe or restaurant can
apply to stay open for 24 hours, seven days a week.
While some U.S. cities and towns are moving to
ward earlier bar closings to combat heavy drinking, in
Britain, the bureaucrats, police and bartenders all be-
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ing times — will reduce hinge drinking and alcohol-
related crime.
Children will also be allowed into pubs for the first
time — but only to watch. Eighteen is the minimum le
gal age for buying alcoholic drinks in a pub.
Pub owners and many drinkers said cheers,
“This is a step in the right direction towardl)j
peal of archaic laws set during wartime,” saw-::
Cumock, director of the British Institute oflnnk
which represents 16,500 licensees.
In practice, police and pub keepers expecttri
hour licenses to be confined to the centers of La
and other big cities, with the main aim beingtoa
closing times between 11 p.m. and 3 a.m.
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to serve alcohol around the clock on New Year -
and the night passed peacefully, encouragingStf
officials to go for a radical overhaul.
The changes would affect 140,000pubs, restan
hotels and nightclubs in England and Wales.
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