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...Britain 153 members of Parliament so far have signed a motion introduced in January asking Thailand to take action to stamp out sex tourism. "The Thai government has come down hard on foreigners who try to smuggle drugs into the country," M.P. Nigel Evans told the House of Commons. "I only wish that they would come down equally hard on foreigners visiting Thailand to prey on the children of that country." Britons are apparently well represented among such % visitors. In 1991 83% of all British tourists to the Philippines, and 80% of all visitors to the Philippines, were...
...canard that Said supports Arab terrorism goes back to the '70s, and it is supported, his critics say, by the fact that from 1977 until 1991 he was a member of the Palestine National Council, a Palestinian parliament-in-exile consisting of some 400 members worldwide, which serves as an umbrella for the P.L.O. as well as for nonmilitary and nonterrorist organizations. Never mind that Said has always urged the P.L.O. to seek the conference table, not the car bomb; or that, to the U.S. government, the P.N.C. and the P.L.O. were wholly distinct. For the Israeli right...
...consider myself neither morally nor legally bound to obey laws made by a Parliament in which I am not represented...
When the old hacks, led by KGB chief Vladimir Kryuchkov, launched their putsch in 1991, Remnick spent the crucial August days and nights with Boris Yeltsin and his backers at the Russian Parliament Building. For the most part, the thousands who stood up for democracy at the Russian White House did it for the man they had elected, Yeltsin. "It wasn't about Gorbachev," one woman told Remnick. "Gorbachev got what he deserved...
THEN WHAT ARE THE PEOPLE WHO USE THEM? "Idiots are people who give up their nuclear weapons." -- GENERAL VLADIMIR TOLUBKO, A MEMBER OF THE UKRAINIAN PARLIAMENT, PRIOR TO THIS WEEK'S NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN UKRAINE AND THE U.S. OVER THE FATE OF THE MISSILES LEFT IN UKRAINE AFTER THE COLLAPSE OF THE SOVIET UNION