Last month, gunmen kidnapped a retired army general in Cancun, a beach city popular with American college students on spring break.

VOA: special.2009.03.14

Originally, the SNP believed the spring conference would precede the general election by only a short period of time.

BBC: SNP to spring conference attack

In a general election this spring, the BJP took a drubbing.

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That could, at a stretch, drag things out until next spring, and a British general election (though Gordon Brown can wait until June 2010 if he wants to).

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