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...safe. In addition, Terigin said that his family in Eldoret has informed him that the violence has nearly completely subsided. “Politicians recognize the unrest and plan to settle it politically in Parliament,” he said. Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, backed by a panel of African leaders, has stepped in to lead negotiations between the opposing parties. “If the negotiation succeeds, then everything should go back to normal,” Kitur said. “I would say that it is not dangerous,” Terigin said...
...problems, said the panel, are as follows...
...difficult as the problems are to solve, the panel went further and said the eight problems were "uniquely interlocked" - meaning that it would be hard to solve one without dealing with the others. "You can't, for instance - if you take an issue like energy - talk about energy without talking about the environment, without talking about economics in this country, without the future and so on," said former New Jersey governor Christine Todd Whitman. "One is linked to the other." She added that none of these challenges could be met without two-party teamwork...
...York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, thought by many to be considering a possible presidential run as a third-party candidate. The Los Angeles Times reported that Bloomberg has begun investing in nationwide polling and voter analysis to explore what it would take to mount a third party candidacy. During the panel's meetings this week, Bloomberg dismissed such talk. "I'm not a candidate, number one. I am a former businessman and a mayor" - hardly a Shermanesque denial...
...panel member said that a third party race would not be necessary if the parties nominated candidates who appealed to the middle and faced the nation's problems squarely. "The more successful the two-party candidates are at engaging independent voters," said former Colorado Senator Gary Hart, a Democrat, "the less reason there is to have an independent candidacy...