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...Since the start of the Bush Administration, U.S. policy toward Sudan has been focused on ending the country's long-running war in the south, which has killed more than 2 million people. Prodded to take action by an unlikely alliance of the religious right and the Congressional Black Caucus, Bush appointed former Missouri Senator John Danforth as a special peace envoy to Sudan and pressured Khartoum and the southern rebels to put down their weapons. But just as a peace deal looked imminent, Darfur exploded. Rather than risk a collapse of the deal in the south, the Administration...
...City councillor and, since 1994, as the local M.P. for Werriwa. He's diligent, serious and bookish - and a seeker of political tutors. His Labor contemporaries never doubted he'd attain the leadership; some of them, however, were surprised by how quickly he got there, how cleverly he played Caucus, the Parliament and the Canberra press gallery to capture public attention. "Who the hell is Mark Latham?" says a senior Labor M.P., recalling reaction to his leader's ascent. "He's the guy who called the P.M. an arselicker and slagged off George Bush. You look back and think...
...give some public input to the governing of Iraq before a parliament can be elected next year. Abu Tbikh was determined to participate and make his voice heard. "We believed it would be the solution to getting rid of the U.S. puppet government," he said. But when his local caucus convened in Najaf to pick delegates for the Baghdad conference, Abu Tbikh encountered nothing but frustration. First he learned that the former Governing Council had reserved 20 seats for itself in the new assembly. Then he was told?incorrectly, it turned out?that other spots in the assembly would...
...Amid the disorder, it's not surprising that the road to democracy is proving stomach-churning. Even before it was scheduled to begin, the national conference was plagued by infighting and irregularities. A seven-party caucus in Baghdad last weekend to choose delegates to the conference was scuttled after the ballot box was found to be stuffed with patently false photocopied ballots. Six of the parties called for an investigation; the seventh stalked out, effectively invalidating the entire vote. Meanwhile, in an attempt to halt a process they feel unfairly benefits the Shi'ites and the Kurds, many from...
Climenko Professor of Law Charles J. Ogletree moderated the panel, sponsored by the Congressional Black Caucus Institute...