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There is an exquisite parallel to be drawn from the French government`s proclamation on Tuesday, giving curfew powers to regional authorities and the power to carry out raids when police suspect that weapons are being stored in poor city suburbs that have been at the center of the current unrest. Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin told national television late Monday that the curfew and other powers would be invoked under a 50-year-old law first enacted in an unsuccessful attempt to quell an Islamist insurrection in Algeria, at a time when that North African country was a French colony. Although there...

The Associated Press Saturday, August 27, 2005; 7:45 PM CRAWFORD, Texas -- Several thousand people descended on President Bush's adopted hometown Saturday, most in a cross-country caravan for a pro-Bush rally and others to support an anti-war demonstration led by grieving mother Cindy Sheehan. Bush supporters gathered for an event marking the culmination of the "You don't speak for me, Cindy!" tour, which started last week in California. The crowd of about 1,500 chanted, "Cindy, go home!" "You are giving hope and encouragement to the enemies of America," said former California Assemblyman Howard Kaloogian, a Republican who co-founded the group...

* Thugs storm campaign headquarters, intimidating staffers and refusing to leave. * Campaign signs are vandalized, stolen, and set on fire in front of peoples' homes. * The word "Nazi" is spray painted on the sidewalk in front of a home, along with swastikas. * Shots are fired through the window of campaign headquarters. * An 8-foot swastika is burned into a home’s front lawn. If these incidents sound reminiscent of Nazi Germany or the Klu Klux Klan's early rampages, then you're in for a surprise, because they all took place in modern day America, during the run-up to the...

Several wives and mothers of serving troops are conducting a weekly counterprotest of a Kerry/antiwar protest at the corner of Laurel Canyon and Ventura Boulevard in Studio City, CA, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. There have been a couple of minor incidents (one restraining order in place and a prosecution for assault pending) but we need a few more bodies to hold the two corners facing the lefty crowd. The point is not to provoke confrontations but to provide a presence. We can provide flags and signs or you're welcome to bring your own. Anybody who can get down there is...

<p>While a popular new song on country radio seems to endorse war on Iraq, Nashville's music community is as conflicted about the standoff as the rest of America.</p> <p>At the same time, artists and recording industry officials say, more music that tries to capture the country's uneasy, anxious mood is coming soon or already here — if you listen carefully.</p>

An unidentified participant in an anti-war rally takes a sign away from a man supporting a contrary view during a protest against the possibility of war with Iraq, on the campus at the University of California-Los Angeles Wednesday, March 5, 2003.

Walking west from Sutton Place, we were prevented from crossing First Avenue and going about our usual Saturday business by the hordes of people demonstrating in the name of peace. Looking over the crowds, and putting aside the unworthy thought that there was not a handful of them that we would even want on our side if we were in the Army, it occurred to us that these were the same sort of historically myopic people that in 1939, 1940 and 1941 demonstrated against this country entering war against Hitler and Imperial Japan. It is estimated that 40 million people...