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Military men, like nature, hate a vacuum. And that's why Peruvians are keeping a wary eye on the barracks following Monday's announcement that President Alberto Fujimori has resigned. The president, on an unscheduled visit to his ancestral homeland, Japan, announced his retirement to preempt congressional moves to oust him. But that may have only deepened the political crisis triggered two months ago by the release of videos showing Fujimori's top aide, intelligence chief Vladimiro Montesinos, bribing a member of congress. Fujimori has indicated he has no immediate plans to return to Peru from Japan...
Students should not be allowed to divest themselves of the right to representative government. Like any representative government the council deserves the right to tax its constituency in order to raise revenue. If the students feel that raise is unfair they can choose not to pay, or they can oust their council representatives who supported the increase. In any case, the council urgently needs funds. It should do everything in its power to pass a hike immediately and seek the support and approval of Dean Lewis and the Faculty...
...summer. At Camp David, Barak proposed that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat get control over the mosques--but not sovereignty. Arafat wanted sovereignty to boost his status with Muslims, so he rejected the proposal. He warned left-wing Israeli supporters that if he compromised on Haram al-Sharif, fundamentalists might oust him. "You Israelis will lose me," Arafat said, according to senior aides. "The peace process will be buried...
...further narrow his own political base. Kostunica is the leader of a small party that has been somewhat peripheral among opposition groups in recent years, and the 15 parties in the coalition he led - which was based not on a policy consensus but simply on the need to oust Milosevic - must necessarily go their separate ways in a parliamentary election. He may be set to learn, like Iran?s reformist president Mohammed Khatami, that winning the presidency by a landslide doesn?t always eliminate the old order...
...political suicide - Barak runs the daily risk of losing his position to a Likud-led no-confidence vote - he can claim two key factors in his favor: The Palestinians would rather deal with him than with Ariel Sharon or Benjamin Netanyahu, and the Knesset may be less likely to oust him if he appears to have found a path to peace. It may be wishful thinking, but these days in the Middle East there isn't much else left...