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...filled with potential spoof material. JAPAN Throw Mori from the Train Nobody likes him?but he's damned hard to get rid of. ITALY For a Few Billion Lira More In this spaghetti western, Berlusconi goes toe-to-toe with Rutelli. Where's Clint Eastwood when you need him? FIJI The Indians in the Cupboard That's where George Speight and friends want them?but the voters may disagree. SINGAPORE The Truman Show II: Another Day in Paradise The population gets suspicious when klieg lights fall from the sky killing the entire opposition?but no one does a thing about...
...Suva An appeals court in Fiji declared the country's military-backed government illegal and ordered it to give up power. The decision may provoke new ethnic confrontations between indigenous Fijians and the country's large Indian minority. Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase said the government would decide how to implement the decision-which "is not going to happen overnight"-in consultation with traditional tribal chiefs. Qarase's civilian government was installed last July after hard-line nationalists led by George Speight ousted Mahendra Chaudhry, Fiji's first ethnic Indian Prime Minister. The court said President Ratu Josefa Iloilo must step...
...Would someone please tell me precisely what other nations were invited to submit entries to the qualifying rounds of the "World" Series? I don't seem to recall any Albanian baseball teams competing. Where were the plucky Paraguayans? The sly Samoans? The tenacious tykes from Tuvalu (it's near Fiji). Answer? Nowhere. That's because baseball is not played in 99 percent of the countries of the world...
...very odd coup," the BBC dubbed it in a headline that certainly seemed to capture the quirkiness of the ongoing putsch on the tranquil South Pacific island of Fiji. But taking the prime minister hostage appears to be becoming less odd and more par for the course in some of Britain's former Pacific island colonies. With no end to the Fijian standoff in sight more than two weeks after coup leader George Speight and a handful of cronies first seized Mahendra Chaudry and 30 other civilians as hostages, the prime minister of the Solomon Islands on Monday found himself...
...Speight has demanded that Fiji be ruled exclusively by indigenous Fijians, while the country's Indian community - the 49 percent of the 800,000 inhabitants whose ancestors were brought to Fiji by the British 100 years ago to pick sugar - must accept second-class citizenship. The gunman's toppling of the country's first ethnic-Indian leader appears to have captured the imagination of many indigenous Fijians, and prompted the Fijian army to seize power and nix the constitution. Still, Speight refuses to free his hostages until he and his cronies are given a direct role in ruling the country...