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...winner-take-all electoral system, the Liberal Democrats, whose public approval rating hovers around 16%, are not likely to gain a great deal more than the 22 seats they now have in the 650-seat House. If called to form a coalition Cabinet, however, they are prepared to exact a price: political autonomy for Scotland and Wales and a Parliament elected by proportional representation, the latter promising to give Ashdown's faithful greater clout. Since a proportional system would rob the major parties of strength, neither Major nor Kinnock favors it, though Labour has bowed to the idea of autonomy...
Ambiguity over the deadline has surfacedbecause the exact details of the March 18resolution were never written down...
...exact cause of the fire is still under investigation, according to Inspector Paul Sheehan of the Cambridge Fire Investigation Department...
...internal workings of a sovereign government. Even if they succeed, the outcome may not be happy. Warns Prince Norodom Sihanouk, who heads the interim Supreme National Council: "There is a true danger after the elections that the losing parties could decide to use their guns against rivals to exact revenge." The U.N. may be needed to hold the line in Cambodia far longer than is now envisioned -- and it is an open question whether the patience and generosity of the international community will endure...
...chance, for not seizing one of those rare opportunities to shape the world for the better. From the end of World War II, the West, and especially the U.S., spent trillions to contain the Soviet Union; that money was, in effect, diverted from the domestic economies to reach this exact point in history...