Word: cementing
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...leeway in demanding that a new Palestinian leadership proves its intent to clamp down on terrorism. But if the leadership replacing Arafat is dominated by the likes of such recognized moderates as former Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas the Israeli leader will also face pressure to help his Palestinian counterparts cement their authority. The most important first step in this regard may be withdrawing troops and easing the security grip on Palestinian population centers to allow the holding of elections...
...head of the country's military, a position he promised to relinquish last November; by the lower house of the National Assembly; in Islamabad. The bill was approved by a 190-107 vote, with proponents saying it would bring stability to the country and opponents complaining it would cement the military's dominance of Pakistani politics. The bill is expected to be passed by the Senate...
...Lieut. General David Petraeus, who tried to be sensitive to local concerns. Several residents fondly recall particular soldiers by name. "Tell Mr. Anderson of the 101st Airborne that a Moslawi girl salutes him," says a schoolteacher. The 101st devoted itself to economic-development projects, including restarting a cement factory that had been one of the city's biggest employers. These days the local economy has stalled as foreign companies have fled. According to Pire, about 600,000 breadwinners are unemployed in a city of somewhere between 2.6 million and 3 million people...
...member constitutional assembly. That group will appoint a new caretaker government, and debate and adopt a new constitution for Iraq, which must be approved in a nationwide referendum by October 2005. The first elections under that new constitution would be held two months much later, which means that to cement their new order, Iraqis will be required to go to the polls three times in the space of a year. That's a tall order given the widespread and escalating insurgent violence: As the Iraqi electoral commission works on voter rolls in one part of the capital, U.S. warplanes drop...
...this week that the movement would boycott elections as long as U.S. troops remained in Iraq. The Sadr group's capacity to disrupt voting in Baghdad and throughout the Shiite south would pose a significant threat. On the other hand, if Sistani perceives the poll as an opportunity to cement the claim of the Shiite majority for the dominant role in shaping Iraq's future, the firebrand Sadr could be persuaded to cooperate...