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Democracy, Now? SAUDI ARABIA Police in Riyadh broke up an unprecedented demonstration calling for democratic reform, and arrested 154 participants. The protest followed the government's pledge to hold its first elections in 50 years, for half of the municipal council seats, within a year.
With two-timers in his ranks, can Kadyrov possibly make good on his pledge to put down the guerrillas? The Kremlin has so far tried to crush the revolt with air strikes and house-to-house sweeps and now, its critics assert, by abducting suspected separatists in the night. These...
MCKELVEY: Let's give President Bush Sr. the credit that he deserves for the famous reneging of the no-new-taxes pledge. We got a fairly good system that worked through most of the '90s in the pay-as-you-go discretionary caps. My first suggestion would be that maybe...
Roh's biggest headache: a corruption scandal that is particularly embarrassing, given his campaign pledge to end dirty politics and his crusade to curb shady dealings among the country's powerful conglomerates. Two of Roh's closest aides are on trial for allegedly taking bribes from now defunct Nara Merchant...
Lately he's suffered other self-inflicted wounds. On a trip to China in July, he purportedly told his hosts that he respected Mao Zedong, whose soldiers killed thousands of South Koreans when China entered the Korean War in late 1950. On policy issues he has repeatedly flip-flopped. Foreign...