The main gates to Faslane submarine base on the Clyde, which is home to the Trident nuclear missile fleet, were sealed off just after dawn yesterday after several hundred peace campaigners staged sit down protests in the roadway.
When the Pentagon announced last week that the number of American troops killed in Iraq had passed a thousand — and it is generally believed that the number of Iraqi civilians killed may be more than ten times that — a coalition of peace groups staged a new round of vigils, this time to commemorate the dead.
A group of English magnates known as The Disinherited, who had lost land in Scotland by the peace accord, staged an invasion of Scotland and won a great victory at the Battle of Dupplin Moor in 1332.
Last fall, Peace Now militants staged a vigil outside Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's home to protest the daily death toll in the occupied territories.
Around 61,000 people are estimated to haven taken part in the largest-ever peace demonstration ever staged north of the border.
Mr. Abdel Rahman, the P.L.O.'s Washington representative, suggested that Israelis opposed to peace might have staged the shooting provoke a Palestinian response, thus scuttling the negotiations.
The state of emergency was clamped on Nepal in November after the Maoist rebels walked out of peace talks and staged a series of raids on security posts.
The four officials, sometimes referred to as the quartet, devised the staged peace plan for a Palestinian state known as the road map.
Under the plan, a staged peace plan written by the United States and supported by the West but never put into practice, the Palestinians are obligated to begin to crack down on gunmen and terrorism and stop incitement against Israel, while Israel is obligated to dismantle illegal outposts in the occupied West Bank, stop settlement activity and pull back from parts of the West Bank.
The news from the West Bank late last week was not of peace, but of raids staged by Israeli soldiers in armored vehicles in two West Bank refugee camps.
