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...trade weapons for Iranian help in securing the release of U.S. hostages, it will be more difficult to ask for cooperation in the future. Editorialized Bonn's General-Anzeiger: "It will take a long time before the leading power in the West can credibly champion the stringency of joint standards for combating terrorism...
...electoral roll had 13 million extra names, though most of these it put down to migrating citizens registering in two places. The BNP concedes there are problems with the roll but denies manipulating it. "Number one, [the Awami League] cannot really establish [the roll was tampered with]," BNP joint secretary-general Nazrul Islam Khan told TIME. "Number...
...over the past has been achieved. Japan's military atrocities still enrage Chinese and Koreans, including ones born long after 1945, while many Japanese dispute the scale of their abuses, and see their country as the ultimate victim. Repeated efforts to forge a common view of the war through joint history commissions have gotten nowhere, and more than 60 years after it ended, a misplaced word about the war can still dynamite the region's fragile diplomatic balance...
...junta government is now eliminating. The changes aim to stop foreign investors using local nominees to put their firms in a Thai name without giving them commensurate decision-making power. "It's clear these moves are going to discourage new investors," says Peter van Haren, head of the Joint Foreign Chambers of Commerce in Bangkok. "Our members have come to me and said this is essentially a forced divestiture...
...While the request needs the approval of the Joint Chiefs of Staff before it can be presented to President Bush, Secretary of State Robert Gates - on his first trip to Afghanistan - appears receptive to the idea...