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...Korea constitution that is in its ninth version. And yet many Koreans and foreign observers had hoped the demons that possessed the South Korean body politic were finally exorcised back in 1987, when the country held its first open and competitive presidential election?heralding a transition from de facto military rule to a framework of constitutional democracy...
...elect a President to a four-year term this weekend, and the outcome, security experts say, could have a profound effect on U.S. relations with China. Beijing considers Taiwan a renegade province but has in recent years been content with a murky status quo--one that permits de facto independence for Taiwan so long as it doesn't formally separate from China. But incumbent President Chen Shui-bian is thought to support formal independence. Four years ago, the former human-rights lawyer beat a divided opposition to take the presidency, but he has not enjoyed the degree of political support...
...Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, the most influential spiritual leader among Iraq's Shiite Muslim majority. Sistani managed to scrap two U.S. transition plans and has now made clear that he wants the interim constitution signed last Monday amended before it takes effect on June 30, to eliminate the de facto veto power it grants the Kurdish minority over a permanent constitution. Sistani did, however, advise his supporters on the Iraqi Governing Council to sign the document, because failure to do so would have provoked a crisis that could delay the July 1 hand-over of power...
...Case for Separation” (Staff Ed, March 2) objects to “state funds paying for a dogmatic and colored religious education,” and fears that the free use of government-funded vouchers would produce “de facto state sponsorship of one religious mindset.” Does the staff also wish to prevent welfare recipients from donating to religious charities? Surely the flow of taxpayer dollars into the collection plate constitutes “de facto state sponsorship”—yet such sponsorship is hardly terrifying when it comes...
...from a pickup, accosted TIME journalists at gunpoint, shouting "Not even the rats move here without our permission!" Because Haiti's police force is a threadbare farce--and because Aristide dismantled Haiti's brutal military during his first presidency a decade ago--the chimeres are the nation's de facto security force. Mostly poor, seething young men, they are prone to chants like "We will turn their skulls into inkwells...