Raising standards would be the main priority of a Plaid government, Mr Jones said, pledging to concentrate resources on ending illiteracy among primary school leavers.

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The Gingrich campaign had a strategy, of sorts: their hero would win the South, ending with a victory in Louisiana's primary on March 24th, whereupon momentum would work its magic.

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Campaigners say that a tenth of primary schools now take advantage of the scheme, with numbers rising, but the European Commission is considering ending the subsidies because of a low take-up of the offer across the European Union.

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But he said that ending the conflict there required a political solution, not a military one, and emphasized that the primary role of U.N. troops would be to monitor any cease-fire agreed upon by the warring parties.

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