Word: diktats
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...Ramallah compound "Operation Matter of Time," but for Washington it was a matter of bad timing. The return of Israeli tanks and bulldozers to the compound, and a West Bank-wide clampdown, appears to have earned the Palestinian leader a temporary reprieve from the mounting challenge to his diktat within his own Fatah organization. Of even more immediate concern to the Bush administration was the return of the Israeli-Palestinian crisis to the top of the agenda of Arab governments and of the UN Security Council - at a moment when Washington wants them to focus exclusively on Iraq...
...germinating a market economy. Manh, though a dyed-in-the-wool apparatchik, could change that. Talking openly about himself?and denying a pretty glamorous lineage?is only part of Manh's new look for the party. Manh is on the record as wanting to change Vietnam from a diktat society to one governed by a legal code that applies equally to everyone. "I think everything should be governed by law," he told TIME...
...hard to accomplish? On the surface, a long list of differences separate Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf. One is devoted to Hindu nationalism, the other to a strong Muslim nation. One governs the world's most populous democracy, the other rules by diktat. India's leader is 20 years older and the frail veteran of 47 years in politics; Pakistan's is a fit career soldier whose political life began just two years ago in a military coup. Vajpayee is a master orator given to flights of poetry; Musharraf is a plainspoken man with...
...French Institute for International Relations. "But they're hostile to the U.S. pulling out of it unilaterally. This is all about style." To create a lasting new world order, transactions between the sole superpower and the rest of the globe need the appearance of give and take, not diktat...
...mullah, Khatami hardly rejects the notion of an Islamic republic. His most cherished aim is to serve the Islamic government by giving people the right to choose it--a concept that is dangerously revolutionary to hard-liners who believe in imposing it by diktat. Outside Iran, especially in Washington, diplomats speculate that Khatami may be unable to convince the hard-liners that reform is really necessary, and American officials grimly point to Khatami's meetings with supporters of terrorism as a sign that he may not be as moderate as some hope...