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...Joseph Wu, Chen's deputy secretary-general, pointed out that some of the hospitals suffering the worst outbreaks are under the direct control of the local Taipei government. But he acknowledged Chen's Cabinet ministers "should have reacted more quickly to the situation and been more decisive in telling hospitals what to do." Indeed, the island's Health Minister may have been sacked partly because he failed to heed calls by the city government to declare SARS an infectious disease, which resulted in complacency among medical staff...
...Chen administration is taking control. A Cabinet-level anti-SARS task force has been hastily assembled, the military has been called into action to help disinfect Taipei's streets and hospitals and strict quarantine measures have been imposed in the capital with stiff fines for violators. Still, some worry that the disease is gathering momentum and bureaucratic reaction times remain too slow. A foreign health-care specialist, who declined to be identified, notes that more than 100 suspected SARS cases in Taiwan have yet to be reviewed by epidemiologists?meaning the number of victims might be substantially higher than...
...danger of destroying his legacy as he becomes increasingly obsessed by his place in history." Clare Short, former British Cabinet minister, on Prime Minister Tony Blair, in her resignation speech before Parliament
...RESIGNED. SAEB ERAKAT, 48, Palestinian negotiation minister, from the Palestinian Cabinet. Erakat, who has led the Palestinian side in negotiations with Israel for almost a decade, tendered his resignation to Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat and Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas after being left off a negotiating team scheduled to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to discuss the U.S.-backed road map to peace...
...considered; when informed, 84% want to vote on it. Blair won't permit a referendum; it's the last thing he needs. But opponents think the refusal leaves him vulnerable to charges of arrogance - which not only Tories are making. Clare Short, his longtime International Development Minister, quit the Cabinet last week to protest the U.N.'s marginal role in Iraq, but blasted Blair for issuing "diktats in favor of increasingly badly thought-through policy initiatives." To British voters, arrogance and Brus-sels are intertwined - yet another trap for Blair. And even if somehow, sometime, they could be persuaded...