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...provisional government over the next six months, through a series of regional caucuses whose delegates would be chosen by the IGC and U.S.-appointed local councils. That's not good enough for Iraq's leading Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, who has demanded that Iraqis be allowed to elect the government that determines their future. Bremer and the some members of the IGC counter that elections cannot be held before next summer because there are no voter rolls - and they also fear that direct elections will return a government dominated by the Shiite majority, and not necessarily particularly friendly...
...deadlines are just an agreement between us and the Governing Council, but I think we all intend to stick to them. There will be a transitional legislature by the end of May. The assembly then will elect a transitional government, which is fully sovereign by the end of June. Once we cede sovereignty, as a matter of law, the occupation ends...
After prodding by California attorney general Bill Lockyer, Governor-elect ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER said he was launching his own private investigation into allegations that he had "groped" women. Very private. The Governor-to-be said he won't give the attorney general--who voted for him in the recall but last week said the allegations could "stain" the new administration--the results of the probe...
...Israel than Turkey," says the diplomat. - By Andrew Purvis and Pelin Turgut Peace Dividend FRANCE The National Liberation Front of Corsica-Combatants Union - the island's main separatist rebel group - unexpectedly announced a unilateral cease-fire. Other groups trying to form a joint list of nationalist candidates for regional elections in March had called for an end to violence. Dissolving Democracy SERBIA-MONTENEGRO The beleaguered government of Serbia, weakened by infighting and allegations of corruption, dissolved its parliament and called elections for December, a year early. The third attempt in just over a year to elect a new President...
...thing they stressed the most was to just to be yourself because your teammates look at who they want as the captain and elect the person as they are, not the person that they want someone to be,” Hodel says...