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Participation in the Thirty Years’ War under Philip III led to further financial difficulties and to another debacle in 1643, when Spanish troops were defeated by the French at Rocroi in Flanders, never to regain their prestige.
The country approved Trudeau’s tough reaction; invoking the War Measures Act, he sent in 10,000 troops and arrested 468 militants.
In Canada, the Toronto Globe and Mail said in a nervous editorial Thursday that, by ruling out in advance the commitment of ground troops before a negotiated peace agreement, NATO told Milosevic that its undertaking to protect Kosovo went only so far--"not exactly the kind of message to send to an adversary as you go to war."
The front pages of most European newspapers were dominated Monday with the standoff in Northern Ireland between the Protestant Orange Order and the British government, which used police and troops to prevent Orangemen from marching through a Roman Catholic quarter of Drumcree Sunday.
1) Genocidal dictator-turned-guerrilla-leader Pol Pot reportedly has surrendered after being hunted down by his own former Khmer Rouge troops.