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...Superman Targets Bush In a wide-ranging interview with Britain's Guardian newspaper, paralyzed actor Christopher Reeve recounts his progress towards his goal of walking by his 50th birthday, and lists President Bush's policy on stem cell research among his major impediments. Reeve is enraged at what he characterizes as the President's capitulation to the Church on an issue of critical importance to people facing dire medical conditions...
...Story in the British Guardian...
...Fighting words, and sources in Tehran tell Time that Khatami intends to back them with action - by calling a referendum on the issue if his adversaries use the legislative veto power of the hard-line Guardian Council to block his initiative. A president elected by a solid 70 percent majority on a mandate of reform and democratization is unlikely to have any trouble winning the electorate's endorsement, and the sense of panic in the hard-line camp is evident: Tehran sources reveal that some in the hard-line camp are pressing the unelected spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ali Khameini...
...first skirmish of the new battle will come when the parliament passes Khatami's bill, and it goes to the hard-line Guardian Council for approval. The hard-line clerics who dominate this unelected body have vetoed scores of pro-reform legislation in the past, but the President's bill would place them in a quandary: reject the legislation and risk an explosion of popular protest, or approve it and suffer the inevitable consequences. If their recent track record offers any guide, the Council may duck the confrontation by approving the bill, then seek to undermine its implementation via their...
...suggests he's finally absorbed a message some of his allies have promoted all along - that the reform movement can only succeed if it relies on its primary strength, which is its support on the streets. And on Wednesday he expressed confidence in the victory of his bill. "The Guardian Council can either say a bill is against Islam or the constitution," Khatami said in Tehran. "The bill I'll present is part of the constitution and it is definitely not against Islam...