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...policy change--and began inviting them back in hopes of drawing on much needed expertise. Despite President Bush's vow that the June 30 deadline for handing sovereignty back to Iraqis was cast in stone, Administration officials on the Hill were slicing the definition of sovereignty. The interim authority could make no laws, they said, and even Iraqi troops would remain under American control...
...Steen Broust Nielsen, 36, is due to become a new father. Although the Denmark-based marketing director is looking forward to the new arrival, he will be taking his two weeks' paid paternity leave in a haphazard fashion. "We have an interim report coming up, so I can't possibly stay away too long," he says. Perhaps "half a day here and half a day there, when it's convenient." Despite the fact that in addition to those two paid paternity weeks Danish law allows both parents to share 32 weeks' state benefit-supported leave during the first nine years...
...awash in guns and factional violence; the police are virtually nonexistent and rebels and gangs still control many towns and cities; the economy is in ashes; the judicial system is a joke and a special presidential election has to be organized by the end of 2005. But Haiti's interim government has dashed hopes of national reconciliation by focusing on retribution against Aristide officials and supporters. That has emboldened street killers: since Aristide's exit, say human-rights reports, dozens of corpses of Aristide backers have turned up in alleys or fields near the airport of the capital, Port...
...political process in a post-occupation Iraq. But that assumes there are significant elements among the insurgents willing to go that route, and also that the Bush administration could countenance a course of action so squarely at odds with much of what it has maintained about Iraq. In the interim, however, the insurgents are unable to prevail militarily but the Coalition is unable to prevail politically...
...government. And even before any of the political questions over the election process and the constitutional rights of the victors come into play, the factor determining whether or not the elections actually occur is the level of security in Iraq - in other words, regardless of the existence of an interim government, the contest determining Iraq's immediate future will remain one fought largely between the insurgents and the U.S. military...