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Who was this Greek thinker?
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP)
— President Robert Mugabe calls them
loyal war veterans, patriotic Zimbabweans
who have risen up spontaneously to fight
those who would betray the revolution that
brought independence.
Most other Zimbabweans see them as
violent foot soldiers in a state-sponsored war
on their own countrymen pan of an effon by
Mugabe to crush his political opponents
before next weekend’s presidential election.
Often escorted by a protective phalanx of
police, militants have firebombed opposi
tion party offices and white-owned farms.
They have attacked homes and businesses.
They allegedly have killed, kidnapped, tor
tured or simply beaten those seen as
Mugabe’s opponents.
Few militants have been arrested. Fewer
have been prosecuted. And some have been
rewarded handsomely by an increasingly
unpopular and autocratic president who is
facing his severest political test against the
opposition Movement for Democratic
Change in the March 9-10 election.
“They are doing exactly what [Mugabe]
wants. Every day of violence is more votes
lost for the MDC,” said Shari Eppel, an offi
cial with the Amani Trust, a Zimbabwean
human rights group.
In fiery speeches, the president has
encouraged and defended his shock troops.
After parliamentary elections in 2000, he
gave a blanket amnesty to those who waged
a violent intimidation campaign against
opposition groups.
“This is a betrayal of what we fought
for,” said Wilfred Mhanda, a former officer
in the high command of the liberation
army that ended white rule in 1980.
“We fought most importantly for free
dom and social justice and there is no polit
ical freedom right now,” said Mhanda. direc
tor of the Zimbabwe Liberation Platform, a
group of war veterans that lobbies for good
governance and human rights.
Joseph Chinotimba, who describes him
self as a field commander of the pro-Mugabe
militants, denied in a telephone interview that
the militants have done anything wrong.
“We are totally peaceful,” said
Chinotimba, who accused the MDC and its
presidential candidate, Morgan Tsvangirai,
of being behind the political violence
sweeping the country.
However, Chinotimba himself has led
violent raids on farms, and he has been
charged with the attempted murder of a
female neighbor he accused of supporting
the opposition. He also was convicted of
possessing an illegal firearm, but remains
free pending appeal.
He once stormed the Supreme Court
yelling, “Kill the judges.” With no interfer
ence from police guards, he entered the
chambers of Chief Justice Anthony
Gubbay, whose court had begun striking
down as unconstitutional new law s aimed at
strengthening Mugabe’s hold on power, and
threatened him.
Gubbay, who had been appointed by
Mugabe, resigned after the government said
it would not protect him.
Chinotimba calls Gubbay “an agent of
Ian Smith,” who was the defiant leader of
the minority white government in the nation
then called Rhodesia.
Mugabe rewarded Chinotimba with a
large farm.
The militants say they are helping redis
tribute white-owned farms to landless
blacks. But many farms have gone to ruling
party lawmakers, Mugabe's ministi
loyalists like Chinotimba.
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Switzerland joins
United Nations
GENEVA (AP) — Swiss vot
ers approved joining the United
Nations on Sunday, finding the
prospect of a greater role in
today’s interlinked world more
compelling than fears that it
would threaten the nation's cen
turies-old tradition of neutrality.
The country, which has been
formally neutral for almost 200
years, will become the United
Nations’ 190th member. Only
the Vatican remains outside the
world body.
During the Cold War,
Switzerland feared U.N. mem
bership would sweep it into the
battles between East and West.
More recently, opponents have
feared having to submit to the
political dictates of the
Security Council.
The Swiss have practiced
forms of neutrality on and off
since the 13th century, but the
principle was laid down formal
ly in the 1815 Treaty of Paris
that ended the Napoleonic Wars.
In that pact, European powers
guaranteed the “perpetual neu
trality” of Switzerland.
The Swiss themselves made
it part of their 1848 constitu
tion. Treating both sides in a
war evenhandedly has remained
a guiding principle since,
although recent historical
reviews have said Switzerland
went too far in helping the
Germans in World War II.
The popular vote gave the
bid for U.N. membership a
comfortable 55-45 percent
approval, but the crucial second
hurdle — approval by at least
half the country’s cantons, or
states — received a much nar
rower 12-11 result.
The referendum had the
highest turnout in a decade, with
58 percent of qualified voters
participating. Switzerland's
three or four annual referen-
dums often draw only 40-50 per
cent of voters.
Small mountain cantons —
most of them German-speaking
— voted heavily against the
United Nations. But the French-
speaking cantons of the west
and key German-speaking can
tons of central Switzerland pre
vailed with their yes vote.
It was a sharp reversal of a
similar Swiss vote in 1986,
when 75 percent rejected U.N.
membership, backing oppo
nents who said East-West polar
ization would compromise
Swiss neutrality.
The government pushed the
latest initiative, believing that
the political climate has changed
since the height of the Cold War
and that it was time for the 7
million Swiss to play a full role
in the world.
Billionaire industrialist
Christoph Blocher — a national
ist politician who led the opposi
tion this time — said he “deeply
regretted” the outcome.
“It will lead to the weaken
ing of Switzerland,” Blocher
said. “Freedom and the rights
of the people will be limited,
and neutrality will at the very
least be deeply damaged.”
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Sunday on construction of a large mosque next to the:. • nfitu es and
the Annunciation in Nazareth, drawing strong concr- designed spi
from Muslims in the biblical town. ity student i
The Islamic Movement in Nazareth, the group that'i nhere are net
build the mosque, accused Christian leaders abroad of tions on can
in a local affair and said it would not abandon its plait' a We for eve
“We totally reject this decision, we are going tost.: l ess of race,
holy land until we finish building the mosque." saidSalm; f f is not
Ahmed, the group’s leader. tom.ike sm
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mosque on a lot adjacent to the basilica where they say a campus is t
was buried. students. It
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the Basilica — the largest in the Middle East and the sit dents have
tradition says die Angel (iabi iel foretold Jesus' birth—wklengc and I,
disrespectful. into their «’
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issue, and President Bush raised the subject with Israelifogportunid
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permits have never been issued. Israel has proposed alK' In a rece
sites, which Muslims in Nazareth have rejected. Houston Cl,
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committee the government set up last month to resolve -A&M, expl
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government ordered a temporary halt to construction inJaft
but that the group intended to continue building, in accord
with permission granted by previous Israeli governments.
“The Christians in the world are doing everything topft
us from building this mosque when it is our responsibility^
here in Nazareth,” he said. “We will stay here and continue ^
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