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...ropes. A string of corrupt governments has failed to tackle the country's poverty, illiteracy and unemployment. A brutal Maoist rebellion has claimed 5,000 lives, including 3,000 since last November. And on Friday the elected government got a stark vote of no confidence: the country's constitutional monarch King Gyanendra?who took the throne 16 months ago after the Crown Prince massacred most of the royal family?went on national TV to say he was firing 'incompetent' Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, postponing next month's parliamentary elections, and temporarily assuming executive powers. Gyanendra says his actions pose...
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...another five years. Another amendment sets up a National Security Council, packed with Musharraf's military and civilian appointees, which will oversee the next elected Prime Minister and his cabinet. The General also awarded himself the right to dissolve Parliament. "Musharraf might as well declare himself as the absolute monarch for life," huffed a spokesman from the Pakistan People's Party. Another opposition group, the Pakistan Muslim League, vowed to use "every step short of violence" to battle Musharraf...
...Elvis was the King, the monarch of proto-pop, Jerry Lee was Moloch, the pagan deity of the Middle East whose worship involved the sacrifice of children. The early-surly Elvis, once under the stern tutelage of the illegal immigrant from the Netherlands who called himself Col. Tom Parker, was processed and pasteurized into a nice young man who went Hollywood (and Vegas) almost as soon as he became a star. Jerry Lee, who had and would tolerate no image-makeover Svengali, wore the musk of venereal danger, styled himself as a reckless teen girl's wet dream...
...show of unity, North Korea broadcast the South's win over Italy, raising hopes that a divided peninsula could still share in athletic triumph. Eastward, South Korean President Kim Dae Jung plans to renew his invitation to Japan's Emperor Akihito to visit, just a few months after the monarch said the nations shared not only the World Cup but common blood?admitting the long-taboo fact that the Japanese imperial family has Korean ancestry. "The World Cup has brought us together," says Hitoshi Takaoka, a Japanese fan who donned a "Korea Team Fighting" shirt after his own team...