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Addressing Israel's parliament, Austria's president apologized today for his country's role in the Holocaust. Austrians have rarely acknowledged the fact that "many of the worst henchmen in the Nazi dictatorship were Austrians," President Thomas Klestil said. "Today, we Austrians recognize that an acknowledgment of the full truth was long overdue." The speech came at the end of Klestil's three-day visit to Israel -- the first by an Austrian head of state. For years, Austria denied persecuting Jews during World War II, even though 70,000 died within its borders. The relationship between Israel and Austria...
After the treaty ceremony in the desert Wednesday, Clinton stopped briefly in Amman, where he told the Jordanian parliament, "You have sent a signal to the entire Arab world that peace is unstoppable." A test of that prediction came the next day in Damascus. Clinton was taking a chance on Assad, rewarding him up front with a telegenic official visit by a U.S. President, even though Syria is still listed by the State Department as a sponsor of terrorism. For his part, Clinton wanted to hear Assad offer public assurances that he opposes the kind of terror Hamas has been...
British Prime Minister John Major told Parliament that he was the target of a blackmail attempt by the owner of Harrods, the London department store. Major said Mohamed Al Fayed had attempted through an intermediary to seek a meeting with him to obtain the withdrawal or revision of a government report critical of Harrods. Major, who said the intermediary threatened that Al Fayed would release allegations of wrongdoing within Major's party if he did not cooperate, declined further communication with the emissary. Al Fayed, meanwhile, denied he had sent anyone to influence the Prime Minister...
Eagehot wrote in The English Constitution that the sovereign has "three rights--the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn" her Parliament, the "efficient" part of government. She has the full force of law to refuse the passage of bills, and even if this power is vestigial, it is enough to supplement and reflect public opinion in keeping government responsible...
Chancellor Helmut Kohl's 12-year-old governing coalition survived major losses in Germany's national election, clinging to a narrow majority in the parliament over the combined opposition. High unemployment, particularly in the country's eastern sector, and swelling public debt contributed to the Christian Democrats' drop in seats, from a 134-edge to just 10. American-style disillusionment with incumbents ran so rampant that former communists from East Germany, who now call themselves Democratic Socialists, won 30 seats...