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Until Parliament sits again, on June 29, P.N.G. will be run - as it usually is these days - by Cabinet and the courts. The busiest people in Port Moresby are judges, who are now deciding whether the five-month adjournment of Parliament was constitutional, whether Skate breached the Leadership Code when he quit as acting vice-regent, whether Skate's removal as Speaker was proper, and whether Matane or Sir Pato Kakaraya, the winner of the December vote, should be sworn in as the next Governor-General. Urgent issues like poverty, crime and corruption, a looming aids crisis, decaying infrastructure...
Back home, friends and colleagues expressed happiness that Okhotin would finally be free to return to the United States after an enforced five-month extension of what he intended as a few days of travel. But many were at the same time outraged at what they said was a miscarriage of justice...
...devout Baptist, the verdict was a dissatisfying conclusion—or disappointing twist—to a five-month ordeal that has been marked by prayer with his family, a month-long hunger strike and the study of several languages...
Back home, friends and colleagues expressed happiness that Okhotin would finally be free to return to the United States after an enforced five-month extension of what he intended as a few days of travel. But many were at the same time outraged at what they said was a miscarriage of justice...
...Aceh's conflict, which has claimed more than 10,000 lives since 1976. And they are likely to suffer a lot more, since the years have not diminished Jakarta's apparent conviction that the Aceh issue calls for a military solution, not a political one. Nor, after a five-month pause, have the rebels lost their taste for battle. Invited by Libyan-trained GAM commander Darwis Jeunib to a remote village in Biruen district in the north, I see a few dozen of some 1,000 soldiers he claims to lead. Though their AK-47s, strung with Acehnese flags...