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[IMAGE][IMAGE]	[IMAGE]	[IMAGE]	[IMAGE]	Politics this week
				May 17th 2001
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				Silvio Berlusconi and his centre-right coalition won majorities in both the 
lower house and the Senate in Italy. He promised radical solutions to the 
country,s problems*of which (though no promises here) his own conflicts of 
interest are one. 
				
				See article: Berlusconi,s triumph, and after E+
				
				America,s president, George Bush, unveiled a national energy strategy. It 
called for more coal mines, oil refineries and nuclear reactors. Critics said 
he had neglected conservation.
				
				See article: Mr Bush,s new energy planE+
				
				The United States and Britain drafted a new resolution on sanctions against 
Iraq, to limit imports with a military use even more strictly but allowing 
all others to enter freely while retaining financial control. China, France 
and Russia, all critical of the current sanctions, seemed likely to support 
the new plan in the UN Security Council.
				
				Battling on
				
				Palestinians marked the anniversary of Israel,s creation with protests. Four 
Palestinians and an Israeli woman were killed. The Israeli army came close to 
admitting that it had earlier killed five Palestinian policemen in error. 
				
				See article: Giving Israel,s army its head 
				
				An Iranian airliner crashed in the country,s mountainous north. Iran,s 
minister of transport, his two deputies and several members of parliament 
were among the dead.
				
				
				
				
				
				
				
				
				
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				Amr Musa, who has been a forceful foreign minister of Egypt, became 
secretary-general of the torpid Arab League.
				
				A new government of national unity in Macedonia gave ethnic-Albanian rebels a 
&final warning8 to end their uprising, but was met by renewed gun battles in 
the north of the country.
				
				Representatives of the government and rebels in Sierra Leone signed a 
tentative agreement in Freetown. The rebels said they would disarm if the 
pro-government militia did so too. They also released 198 child-soldiers and 
said more would follow. 
				
				See article: A pause in Sierra Leone,s warE+
				
				Court reports
				
				The execution of Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bomber, was postponed 
until June 11th when it emerged that the FBI had failed to disclose thousands 
of pages of evidence. Louis Freeh, the bureau,s boss, admitted to Congress 
that a &serious error8 had been made.
				
				See article: An apology to the FBIE+
				
				General Wojciech Jaruzelski, Poland,s last communist leader, went on trial in 
Warsaw, accused of ordering soldiers to fire on shipyard workers in 1970, 
when he was defence minister.
				
				An Iranian appeals court cut a ten-year sentence imposed on Akbar Ganji in 
January to six months. Mr Ganji, convicted for undermining national security, 
is a campaigning journalist who named a former intelligence minister as being 
behind the murder of dissident intellectuals.
				
				No to violence
				
				Electing a regional parliament, Basque voters clobbered the separatist gunmen 
of ETA, but snubbed Spain,s prime minister too by strongly supporting the 
non-violent nationalists. 
				
				See article: After Spain,s Basque election E+
				
				Talks between the EU and the most advanced applicant countries have been 
postponed. Germany wants to limit movement of workers from Eastern Europe, 
and Spain fears losing regional funds to the new members.
				
				Canada,s opposition Alliance split. Eight of its 66 members of Parliament 
called for Stockwell Day, the Alliance,s embattled leader, to resign, and 
said they would meet as a separate parliamentary group.
				
				
				
				
				
				
				
				
				
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				Supporters of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, the Philippines, new president, have 
won control of the Senate, according to exit polls. 
				
				See article: The Philippines, electionsE+
				
				As a &reward8 to the military government in Myanmar for having talks with 
Aung San Suu Kyi, the opposition leader, Japan offered a grant of $29m 
towards the cost of a hydro-electric plant in the east of the country.
				
				
				
				
				
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