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...suspects this method would allow the Americans and to a lesser degree the Governing Council--the U.S.-appointed group of transitional Iraqi leaders--to engineer the results to their liking. In an effort to mollify Sistani, the U.S. last week persuaded U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan to dispatch a team to Iraq to explore the feasibility of holding elections by June 30. Aides to Sistani told TIME that he would be willing to accept a delay in the planned July handover of power if it meant that elections could be held...
...plan calling for an increase in the government's share of pension financing, with the added expenses to be funded by canceling a series of income tax cuts. Many prominent LDP members claim that this scheme will put Japan's fragile economic recovery at risk. Japan's scheduled 2004 dispatch of troops to Iraq, opposed by many in the New Komeito, is another potential political battleground...
...that its allies' reticence isn't rank ingratitude: for both Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and Roh, meeting U.S. demands could be political suicide. In a survey last month by the daily Asahi Shimbun, 55% of the Japanese public was against sending troops to Iraq. Koizumi's plan to dispatch the S.D.F. has been criticized by his coalition partner the New Komeito and by the opposition Democratic Party of Japan, which did so well in last week's parliamentary elections that pundits are heralding a new era of two-party democracy...
...might seem good reasons to expect help in Iraq from two Asian friends. But last week, a day after the suicide attack in the southern Iraqi town of Nasiriyah that killed 31 people, including 18 Italians, Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda said Japan was suspending plans to dispatch its Self-Defense Forces (S.D.F.) to Iraq by the end of the year. "We could send troops if the circumstances permit," he said. "But they do not." Around the same time, South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun told his Cabinet to limit Korea's contribution to 3,000 soldiers...
...first big name pop music event—aside from an appearance by the Verve Pipe at Springfest 2002—in more than two years. But last night’s audience far exceeded the roughly 900 who attended that concert, an October 2001 performance by Dispatch in Sanders Theater...