Bush Gets a Taste of European Hospitality
The smiles could not conceal profound differences between the U.S. and Europe last week. After a lukewarm response to American missile-defense plans at a NATO meeting in Brussels, President George W. Bush must have hoped for a warmer reception in Gothenburg, where he joined a summit of E.U. leaders. It was warm, all right, but not exactly friendly. Thousands of demonstrators shouted, waved banners and at one point bared their bottoms though the protests were tame compared with the violent anti-capitalist riots that disrupted the E.U. meeting after Bush's...
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