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When he was campaigning for President, Lech Walesa promised to give every citizen a slice of the country's wealth. Last week his government took a giant step toward fulfilling that pledge when Prime Minister Jan Krzysztof Bielecki announced that Warsaw will effectively make every one of the country's...
Michael and William Randall, twin nine-year-olds from Anaheim Hills, Calif., have been just as stubborn. They were excluded from a Cub Scout pack in February because they could not, as atheists, pledge duty to God. One of their attorneys is their father James, but he emphasizes that the...
Alarmed by the aggressiveness of the religious extremists, 43 moderate businessmen and intellectuals petitioned Fahd to fulfill his pledge to make the government more democratic. "A Consultative Council is a symbol of participation that will help educate the public," says Abdul Muhsin al-Akkas, an executive of the Riyadh Chamber...
Tesfaye never followed through on his second pledge, but he did proclaim a cease-fire before seeking asylum at the Italian embassy. At that point, Herman Cohen, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, announced in London that the U.S. was "recommending" that the Democratic Front enter Addis Ababa...
For now, the Democratic Front's position on Eritrea is much like Washington's: it endorses the right of the Eritreans to their referendum but wants a unified Ethiopia and so hopes that the vote, if held, goes against secession. As the day of reckoning approaches, tensions between the two...