Word: parliament
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...international peacekeeping force, and which countries would send troops? Indonesia's failure to keep its commitment to ensure security in East Timor has raised the clamor for an international peacekeeping force to replace Indonesian troops. Jakarta has thus far resisted the idea, at least until the Indonesian parliament recognizes East Timor's independence ? which will take at least a month, and is far from a done deal. Nobody is advocating that peacekeepers fight their way in, which means that right now the international community is raising pressure on Indonesia to accept such a force. Australia would take the lead...
...cause for confidence. The best efforts of a wide array of U.S. agencies to get the Russians to tackle money laundering have simply floundered. The New York Times reported Wednesday that a law against money laundering, developed with the help of U.S. officials, was twice passed by Russia?s parliament ?- and twice vetoed by Boris Yeltsin...
...Chavez scored an important victory Monday when the Constitutional Assembly, elected in July to draw up a new constitution, effectively dissolved the country?s center-right-controlled parliament. The protests of opposition legislators won?t resonate with the electorate, who are still overwhelmingly behind the 45-year-old former paratrooper and failed coup leader. "Most Venezuelans support Chavez because the country?s traditional parties were so corrupt," says TIME Latin America bureau chief Tim McGirk. But enthused though they may be by Chavez's promise to share the country?s oil wealth with the impoverished majority, they may be disappointed...
...Absent the moral authority of retired president Nelson Mandela, Mbeki may find it difficult to resolve the mounting tide of labor conflicts and avert major social disruption. But at least the government is leading by example: While it?s offering public sector employees a 6.3 percent increase, members of parliament and government officials will receive only a 4 percent raise. That may be little comfort, though, to millions of South Africans struggling to make ends meet...
...Displaying the sort of gritty determination that had won international fame for Dimitrov himself in 1933 - when he?d faced down Nazi prosecutors after being falsely accused of burning down the German parliament - the government?s demolition team scheduled a third attempt on Sunday evening, this time using 600 pounds of Ammonite, a more potent explosive. But, as if to prove that Bulgarians never tire of hearing a joke repeated, it failed, too. Now the authorities plan to do the job with bulldozers. Better keep those hard hats on, boys...