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To: ild who wrote (60042)	5/1/2006 5:04:40 PM
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Bolivia Pres Orders Military To Occupy Gas Fields (why all this military action over ENERGY and not gold fields and gold mines?) LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP)--President Evo Morales ordered soldiers to immediately occupy Bolivia's natural gas fields Monday and threatened to evict foreign companies unless they sign new contracts within six months giving Bolivia majority control over the entire chain of production. Morales said soldiers and engineers with Bolivia's state-owned oil company would be sent to installations operated by foreign energy companies. "The time has come, the awaited day, a historic day in which Bolivia retakes absolute control of our natural resources," Morales said in a speech from the San Alberto petroleum field in southern Bolivia operated by Brazil's Petroleo Brasileiro SA (PBR) in association with the Spanish-Argentine Repsol YPF SA (REP) and France's Total SA (12027.FR). Bolivia has South America's second largest natural gas reserves after Venezuela, and all foreign companies must turn over most production control to Bolivia's cash-strapped state-owned oil company, Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscales Bolivianos, Morales said. (END) Dow Jones Newswires May 01, 2006 15:50 ET (19:50 GMT) Copyright (c) 2006 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.- - 03 50 PM EDT 05-01-06

To: ild who wrote (60042)	5/1/2006 6:01:02 PM
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1,000 Protest In Southern Russia After Armed Raid ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia (AP)--Around 1,000 people protested in southern Russia on Monday after an armed raid on the home of a Russian Cossack leader, accusing security forces of being behind it, police said. The protest took place in Beslan, the town where the deadly September 2004 school hostage seizure happened. The Beslan Mothers' Committee, founded by mothers of the children who died in the siege, took part in the rally. A group of armed, masked men who said they were from an anti-terrorist police unit burst into Cossack leader Khariton Yedziyev's home in Beslan early Friday and tried to take him away, the regional Interior Ministry said. But neighbors blocked the path outside and forced the abductors to set him free. The Beslan mothers, who have criticized law enforcement authorities for failing to prevent the school siege or its bloody climax, called on police to end illegal security sweeps. The Cossacks, ethnic Russians who settled the mainly Muslim North Caucasus from the 16th century, help to guard internal borders in the region. Meanwhile, in Nazran, police Monday rescued the father-in-law of the leader of the southern Russian province of Ingushetia, who was kidnapped in late February, the Ingush Interior Ministry said. Magomed Chakhkiyev, an influential regional legislator and wealthy businessman who is the father-in-law of Ingush leader Murat Zyazikov, was seized from his car at gunpoint on Feb. 27. Several people suspected of involvement in the kidnapping have been detained, an Interior Ministry official said. Ingushetia borders Chechnya to the west and is frequently rocked by violence, kidnappings and assassination attempts. (END) Dow Jones Newswires May 01, 2006 10:49 ET (14:49 GMT) Copyright (c) 2006 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.- - 10 49 AM EDT 05-01-06