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...bill amid reports of growing dissent within the ruling zanu-pf party. As human-rights groups noted increasing incidents of political violence and the U.N. delivered food aid to once-productive areas, local reports said a parliamentary revolt led by rebel M.P. Eddison Zvobgo had forced the government to amend proposed new information laws. Bills curtailing political activity and election campaigning have already been passed into...
...many times to suit his dictatorship. That was true, but her act planted a seed of constitutional disregard. On several occasions in the 1990s, Aquino and Sin called people onto the streets to defend the new constitution. The reason: Fidel Ramos, Aquino's successor, was allegedly trying to amend the charter to allow himself a second term. Aquino and Sin didn't like that idea, and they used a mini-People Power movement to stop it. Their rallying cry: the constitution has to be respected...
...George Bush, Sharpton says, he will hold a simultaneous "shadow inauguration" in downtown D.C., blocks away from the inaugural route, where he plans to give his own inaugural address and inaugural oath. At the rally, scheduled for 10:30 on Saturday morning, he will deputize hundreds of people to amend the electoral process...
...Secretary of State Katherine Harris certifies the election results minus the overseas absentee ballots, with Bush holding a 300-vote lead. She gives counties that are still doing hand counts and wish to amend their results until 2 p.m. Wednesday to submit their reasoning...
Collier County, in southwest Florida, discovered 24 additional absentee ballots that had not been counted. Collier County officials hoped to get Harris' permission to count the ballots and amend their results...