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...PERPETUAL CRISIS, EVENTS in Russia last week seemed more foreboding than usual. While President Boris Yeltsin was on an impromptu vacation, he continued to trade accusations -- but made no progress in resolving differences over how to share power -- with archrival Ruslan Khasbulatov, the capricious chairman of Russia's parliament. In remarks echoed by his Defense Minister, Pavel Grachev, Yeltsin used an interview on the eve of the biggest Soviet-era military holiday to rebuke hard-liners, including dissident officers, for trying "to play the army card" in a bid to derail Russian democracy. The next day 20,000 procommunist...
...Naples are without mayors because of the scandal. Three Cabinet Ministers tainted by association have stepped down. Prime Minister Giuliano Amato was reduced last week to arguing that just being under criminal investigation should not oblige a public official to quit. Amato won a lukewarm vote of confidence from Parliament last Thursday, but the scandal may yet consume his eight-month-old government...
Recent violence between Hindus and Muslims in India is a result of the buse of religion for political aims, an Indian parliament official told 30 people gathered at Lowell House yesterday...
...Najma Heptulla, Deputy Chair of the Indian Parliament Upper House and a member of the majority Indian Congress party, analysed the history of developing religious and ethnic conflicts in India...
...MOST PLACES, A DOCTOR WHO HELPS A TERMINALly ill patient commit suicide could face prosecution. But not in the Netherlands, which has just stepped into the vanguard of the right-to-die movement. Its parliament approved the world's most liberal rules on euthanasia and doctor-assisted suicide. Both practices are still technically illegal, but doctors won't be charged if they notify coroners of their actions and if they follow certain guidelines. Among them: the patient must be mentally competent; must be suffering unbearable pain and request euthanasia repeatedly; and the doctor must consult a second physician before proceeding...