Word: provinciale
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Scrambling to fill the leadership vacuum, Congress prepared to name provincial governor Adolfo Rodriguez Saa as acting President until an election is held on March 3. But Argentina's collapsing finances demand urgent attention. Default on the country's $132 billion debt seems inevitable--especially since last week's popular...
The Han Chinese considered these northern lands, home to the indigenous, untamed Mongol hordes, to be outside the civilized world. And the Great Wall stands testimony to China's long struggle to protect the Middle Kingdom from the nomadic barbarians. But the wall was no obstacle to the heirs of...
The A.N.C. now seems set on pushing legislation through parliament to encourage such political defections. In return for crossing the floor, Van Schalkwyk and a few others of his party are likely to be offered posts by the A.N.C. in national and provincial governments while the Democratic Party - still in...
Few expect the situation to improve. Another of the city's power brokers, provincial governor and Pashtun leader Haji Abdul Qadir, was in Bonn for talks on the future national government when he staged a walkout, citing a lack of Pashtun representation. One of his last acts before leaving Jalalabad...
Thus far, terrorists have attacked by perverting jetliners into weapons and by sending powdered anthrax by U.S. mail. However, despite myriad screens showing the vanquishing of evil-doers, there is no record of violent attempts on provincial movie theatres. Hotels in midtown Manhattan and shabby train station waiting areas have...