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Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond holds a cabinet meeting at Bute House in Edinburgh, after he said that the Scottish Government will put the
Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012

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  • ALEX SALMOND,
  • head of Scotland's semiautonomous government, on the plans to stage an independence referendum in the fall of 2014; he is resisting U.K. government demands to set an earlier date for the historic poll
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