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...staff chiefs. Until now, Republicans consoled themselves in this worsening political environment with the belief that congressional elections are local popularity contests. Now that the monthly price of driving to work rivals the mortgage payment, gasoline, more than any other issue, could turn this election into a national referendum. With the G.O.P.'s popularity gauge already down a couple of quarts, Rove was told that if the White House didn't do something, anything, about energy costs, Congress could put the President in the position of using his first veto to kill a windfall-profits tax on oil-company earnings...
...have got guns makes it all the more imperative that the new government try and deal with them," says Rhoderick Chalmers of the International Crisis Group. "They have to be brought into the mainstream." The Maoists have offered to lay down their arms as long as the planned constitutional referendum proceeds with no conditions-a demand surely to be rejected by the King, who will insist on keeping at least a ceremonial role. Even if the monarchy and the Maoists can come to an unlikely compromise, Nepal's historically fractious political parties may yet disrupt the process. Should the parties...
...sides of the conflict in order for true peace to eventually emerge. It is unacceptable for Hamas to allow Islamic Jihad and other terrorist factions to operate freely within the Palestinian territories. We hope that in the near future, Mahmoud Abbas, as president of the PA, calls for a referendum to form a new government. At that time, Palestinians need to take a hard look at their past choice and attempt to discern what is truly in their best interest. The main source of income for most residents of the West Bank is foreign aid to the PA, and Hamas?...
Coup is one of the community bankers who have turned a routine regulatory application into a referendum on the world's biggest retailer. Wal-Mart submitted a filing last July asking the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the agency that guarantees bank deposits, to create a new entity called Wal-Mart Bank. It won't be a regular bank at all; the company says it will do nothing but process credit- and debit-card payments internally. But the application generated so many comment letters--3,600 and counting--that for the first time in its history, the FDIC decided...
...does its Melanesian people's 40-year struggle for self-rule. Home to vast mineral and timber wealth, West Papua's status is an accident of colonialism: retained by the Dutch when Indonesia declared independence in 1945, it came under Indonesian rule after the Act of Free Choice referendum in 1969 - a change decried by many Papuans, who say the 1,000 voters were hand-picked by Indonesia...