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...vote was meant to have been held more than two hours earlier, but it was delayed by an unprecedented display on the floor of Parliament: during the afternoon debate session, a group of opposition MPs from the Bharatiya Janata Party displayed stacks of cash, asserting that one of them had been offered a bribe to abstain from the vote. The commotion disrupted the proceedings as Speaker Chatterjee insisted that the claim be made formally and in writing, rather than on the open floor. That was just the most serious of the allegations thrown against the Congress Party during...
...says an American diplomat in Mogadishu. In Somalia, getting the job done involved landing, unarmed and virtually alone, ahead of U.S. troops last December as George Bush's special envoy. He spent 16 hours each day meeting with Somalis, breaking only for a two-mile run every afternoon at 5. Insisting that Somalis take the lead in rebuilding their own country, he approached not just clan leaders but also women, village elders and others who had been forced to the sidelines while gunmen shot the country to pieces. That won him a lasting respect that served him well last week...
...Chief Michel Francois to resign. Aristide could return, the note proposed, but Cedras and Francois would remain in their posts, responsible only to an ''independent'' Prime Minister they had every intention of controlling. Aristide, it was clear, would be a political cripple. The letter was never sent. On Friday afternoon, when U.S. envoy Lawrence Pezzullo met with Cedras, the Haitians knew the fleet was on its way. According to American and Haitian sources, Pezzullo wasn't about to bargain. ''You said you were someone who could deliver,'' Pezzullo told Cedras. ''You said your word was good. Now you look stupid...
...deal in American history might never have come to pass last week if Bell Atlantic chairman Raymond Smith and Tele-Communications Inc. president and chief executive officer John Malone had not got stuck on a boat off the coast of Maine. The merger talks were going nowhere that August afternoon when the two men decided to head back to shore, only to find that the anchor of Malone's 70-ft. sailboat had snagged an underwater power line. While divers spent two hours cutting the boat free, Smith and Malone had little choice but to continue trying to unsnarl...
...object lesson in Buddhist dispassion. On Thursday afternoon, following a teaching by the Dalai Lama at New York City's Radio City Music Hall, a group of 500 or more audience members screamed at and spat at a mixed group of about 100 people, both Tibetan and Western, who had been peacefully protesting the high lama. Police felt it prudent to move in fast, with horses, and herded the smaller group into buses for their own protection. The pro-Dalai Lama crowd had also flung money at their foes, an insult indicating that they had been bought (presumably...