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...government to allow blacks to own homes. With her 1985 autobiography, Call Me Woman, she became the first black writer to win South Africa's prestigious CNA literary prize. In the country's first all-race elections in 1994, the African National Congress member won a seat in Parliament, where she served five years...
...offer to hand over power to a prime minister chosen by the seven parties that have been spearheading the protests against him. However, the parties today rejected the King's offer, saying that it did not meet their basic demands, which include holding elections for a special parliament to write a new constitution for Nepal that would turn the King into a ceremonial figure...
...planning to seize power and seek U.S. backing. Former U.S.-appointed Prime Minister Iyad Allawi suggested on Iraqi TV last weekend that Iraqi political leaders, despite being marginalized by the Iraqi electorate, might have to create an extra-constitutional ?emergency government.? One of his key allies, acting speaker of parliament Adnan Pachachi, told reporters that such a government would not be based either on the constitution or on the election results - results, he claimed, which didn't necessarily reflect the true will of the Iraqi people . Such a move would likely provoke a violent Shi'ite reaction, if not full...
...become more pungent this week, when talks to form a coalition government could result in an important post - Deputy Prime Minister - for Andrzej Lepper. Leader of the Self-Defense party, Lepper is a radical populist who has been convicted of assault (the conviction was erased when he entered parliament) and is under investigation for allegedly libelous attacks on his opponents. He made his name in violent street demonstrations in the mid-1990s and has blasted free-market reforms and E.U. membership for Poland. Only this month he was criticized for declaring that he had wanted to slap a television journalist...
Giuseppe Lumia, a member of the Italian Parliament's anti-Mafia commission, says the arrest is ultimately a chance to get closer to the core of Italy's organized-crime problem. "We need to take it to the next step, to break the Mafia's bonds with elements of the political and economic system," he says. But the arrest can also cut another way. Remember what Provenzano said? "You have no idea what you've done." Lumia is worried that those words may signal a bloody battle for succession...