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...they have learned that even powerful women with scepters are out of luck. The former mayor of New York City visited London last week and received an honorary knighthood from Queen Elizabeth for his leadership on Sept. 11 and its aftermath. But U.S. citizens, unlike subjects of the Commonwealth, don't kneel before the monarch, and so Rudy stayed upright. Giuliani received a silver cross and a star pin, but despite being compared to Winston Churchill during the blitz, he is not entitled to affix an official "Sir" before his name. Later he and his companion JUDITH NATHAN took...
...government and recalled an advance team of election observers after officials refused to accredit the mission's head, Pierre Schori. The U.S. State Department said it planned to implement similar measures denying visas and freezing the assets of 20 top Zimbabwe officials. Observer teams from southern Africa and the Commonwealth said their missions would go ahead as planned, deploying about 200 people among them...
With bans and restrictions by Mugabe on British and European Union observers, the report on the election by the South African team will become an important assessment of "free and fair." And pressure is building on Mbeki not only from Britain, the Commonwealth and the European Union, but also from SADC and other African leaders who, in keeping with the NEPAD principles, are anxious to establish their continental credibility. That will make it difficult for the South African observers to come up with a whitewash, as they did in Zimbabwe's 2000 general election...
...accept, let alone support," anyone who had not fought in the independence movement. Tsvangirai was a labor activist during the battles for independence. As the rest of southern Africa looked anxiously on, Australia's Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said he would push for Zimbabwe's suspension from the Commonwealth at the heads of government meeting scheduled to take place in March. The E.U. gave Harare an ultimatum: accept foreign media and international monitors within a week, but it did not threaten sanctions. Zimbabwe has said it will only accept observers, not monitors...
...council will also include Dr. Thomas P. Monath, vice president of the Cambridge-based biotechnology firm Acambis; Dr. Carol Ann Rauch, a bioterrorism specialist at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield; and state Department of Public Health Commissioner Howard Koh. Richard S. Swensen, the state’s Director of Commonwealth Security will lead the council...