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...There isn't an organization called Sinn Fein/IRA. I am not a spokesperson for the IRA," he said. "I suppose eventually history will be told and told very honestly about all of us. I am [a member of the Westminster parliament] for Sinn Fein...
Martin McGuinness, second in command to Sinn Fein's Gerry Adams and a member of the Westminister Parliament for Sinn Fein, addressed the political issues in Ireland to about 500 people at the ARCO Forum...
...have been noted for their brave support of democracy against dictatorship, and, in the Cold War, for serving as a bastion against communism. For instance, King Juan Carlos of Spain has been greatly admired since 1981, when he intervended to prevent a military coup from taking over the Spanish parliament. For Cambodia, the exiled but widely respected King Norodom Sihanouk has been a ray of hope representing democracy, as this summer militant leader Hun Sen crashed the fragile Cambodian peace that had been set up by the United Nations...
This decision begins to strike at the heiwa kenpo or Peace Constitution, which was probably the best result of the American occupation of Japan after World War II. Currently in the Japanese Diet (the equivalent of Parliament), legislation is being considered that would considerably revise the Peace Constitution so that the peaceful focus of this document would be forever altered. This concerns some high officials in Japan, such as Takako Doi, head of the second largest political party in Japan, the Social Democratic Party. In her recent speech at Harvard Law School, Doi stated that the MacArthur Constitution "gave Japan...
...would be easy to dismiss Rokhlin as a nut, if he didn't also happen to be chair of the Russian Parliament's defense committee. And on a day when the Duma threatened Yeltsin with a possible vote of no confidence, the general's speech comes as a reminder of just how deep the dissatisfaction goes -- especially in the military...