Word: glorias
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...though the media may be recounting the ballots in Florida, nobody would dream of trying to reverse the result. No matter what they think about how he got there, Bush's victory is accepted as a fait accompli across the political spectrum in Washington. Not so the selection of Gloria Arroyo in the Philippines and Joseph Kabila in the Congo...
...Barely five days after she was sworn in, the Philippines' President Gloria Arroyo was having to reassure the nation that she wasn't about to be overthrown in a coup. Arroyo took the bizarre step Thursday of taking out a cell phone during a presidential press conference and calling the general suspected of plotting her overthrow. "Are you going to stage a coup against me?" she asked General Edgardo Espinosa of the Marines. Listening for a moment, she then assured her audience that a coup was "beyond the general's imagination." Needless to say, that display didn't exactly allay...
...succeed him. The first sign of trouble came earlier this week when Arroyo's defense minister quit over her decision to retain as national security adviser a former military chief who faces corruption charges himself. She may be a committed economic reformer who hopes to sweep out corruption, but Gloria Arroyo is perched atop a power structure that has been riddled with graft and now appears to be wracked by political infighting...
...House Democrat Carolyn Maloney. "Every day, at least 1,600 women and girls die from the complications of pregnancy and childbirth. Bush's decision to impose a gag rule is a pure legislative ambush, and the victims of this ambush are the world's poorest women and girls." And Gloria Feldt, president of Planned Parenthood, was equally vociferous: "It is evidence of the hard-line agenda on reproductive health and rights that the Bush administration will undoubtedly take," she told TIME. "It's evidence also that they feel the need to pay off the hard-line, anti-choice extremists...
...capital that prompted a majority of Estrada's ministers to resign and coaxed the armed forces onto the side of the opposition. The writing was on the wall for Estrada Friday when military commanders appeared at a mass rally to announce that they had transferred their support to Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, the vice president who has led the call for Estrada's ouster and who has now taken the reins as president...