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Seeking to defuse the crisis, Estonian President Lennart Meri consulted with European legal experts. On their advice, Meri refused to sign the aliens act into law and last week called the Estonian parliament back into an emergency session, where more fuel was added to the fire when legislators proposed holding an emergency session to discuss suspending Narva's city council. Should this happen, tensions could get out of hand. As Vladimir Khomyakov, a Narva city-council member, brusquely put it, "This is our homeland; we have no other. The only way out now is autonomy. Otherwise, there will...
Britain's immigration laws have been tough for decades, but a bill now before Parliament would tighten the requirements for political asylum and take away the right of tourists and students to appeal when their request for an extension is refused. Under pressure from the E.C., Spain requires visas for arrivals from Morocco. The Spanish have persuaded Morocco to take back its own citizens as well as others who illegally enter their country across the mouth of the Mediterranean...
...root of her interest in American politics, Democrat division, was a desire to keep her husband active. Certainly that was a factor, but her determination to be near great men and her instinct for politics were lifelong (when she was a child, seven members of her family were in Parliament). Drawing on decades of observation of government workings and business deals, she began the task of helping rebuild the party after it lost control of the Senate...
After 37 years in power, Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party is disintegrating in the wake of a no-confidence vote in the parliament's powerful lower house: 44 of the party's current 512 legislators defected to form a party that could ally with opposition groups to form a new government when elections are held July...
Japanese legislators have approved a motion of no confidence in the government of Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa; they say he has failed to attack political corruption as he promised to do. It is only the second such resolution since the 1950s. Miyazawa has dissolved the parliament, and must call new elections within 40 days...