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...Democratic majority of the United States Senate," Senator Robert Torricelli said Monday. Unfortunately for Democrats, Torricelli, in abandoning his re-election campaign, may have accomplished exactly that. The big questions, for New Jersey and the balance of power in the Senate: Will the party be able to draft a winner? And will the state courts allow a replacement at this late date...
...draft of Article 23 represents an all-too logical development of the manner in which the Hong Kong government has interpreted its promised high degree of autonomy as meaning a high degree of freedom to kowtow to the sovereign power in the north. Shorn of its linguistic niceties, it lays down that any organization of which Beijing disapproves on security grounds will be proscribed in Hong Kong. That could, for instance, mean that the Falun Gong movement, which the central government has been persecuting remorselessly, could be outlawed in the SAR. Or it could put Hong Kong's democratic parties...
...Security Council, European allies, led by Britain, have been pressing Washington to give Iraq an option of forestalling war by cooperating with weapons inspections, a carrot before the stick. The Bush team is willing to go along - but not for very long. The White House circulated a draft resolution late last week that accepts the British approach in principle but then called on Saddam Hussein to declare all his weapons of mass destruction within seven days of U.N. action. The Bush Administration wants to give Iraq no more than a month to open all its military sites and weapons plants...
...Diplomatic Tug-of-War While the U.S. congress debated a motion on war with Iraq, the U.S. and Britain agreed on a draft U.N. resolution that gives Iraq a week to list the prohibited weapons in its possession, to allow inspections and to agree to disarm. The draft threatens "use of all necessary means" if Saddam Hussein fails to comply. "The resolution, or resolutions, must be strong enough ... that they produce disarmament and not just inspections," said U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell. That was the easy part. State Department official Marc Grossman visited France and Russia - veto-holding Security...
...Bush’s rhetoric has already cornered his critics in Congress, who remain paralyzed by anxiety and doubt. When Bush released a draft resolution on Saturday that would give him nearly boundless power to deal with Iraq as he sees fit, his so-called opponents in Congress have offered only the most feeble objections. The resolution would give Bush the power “to use all means that he determines to be appropriate, including force…to defend the national security interests of the United States against the threat posed by Iraq...