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...party has invested millions in computer software so workers can ply towns and neighborhoods each evening, PalmPilot in hand, hunting down Democratic voters, especially any who want absentee ballots, ensuring that they have returned them, even offering to deliver the ballots to polling places. In the post-campaign-finance-reform world, "this is the future of the Democratic Party," Gephardt says...
...farm evictions--timed to coincide with Heroes Day, which commemorates those killed in the liberation war that brought Zimbabwe independence in 1980--are central to President Robert Mugabe's controversial land-reform program, which helped him win re-election last March in a poll marked by violence and allegations of vote rigging. The President says redistributing Zimbabwe's best agricultural land, most of which is owned by whites, and giving it to black peasants is the only way to right past injustices and balance the economic scale. But critics, who include the main opposition party, former colonial power Britain...
...from a peak in the 1960s, political psychiatry has been revived as a result of the crackdown on the Falun Gong sect. A Hong Kong court found 16 Falun Gong followers guilty of causing a public obstruction by demonstrating outside China's main office in the territory. INDONESIA Democratic Reform The world's most populous Muslim state abolished an electoral system that let President Suharto hold power for 32 years. The People's Consultative Assembly passed changes to the constitution including the introduction of direct elections for president and vice president - previously, the Assembly chose the holders of both offices...
...party has invested millions in computer software so workers can ply towns and neighborhoods each evening, PalmPilot in hand, hunting down Democratic voters, especially any who want absentee ballots, ensuring that they have returned them, even offering to deliver the ballots to polling places. In the post-campaign-finance-reform world, "this is the future of the Democratic Party," Gephardt says...
Furious that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat hasn't halted terror attacks on Israelis, the U.S. wants thorough reform of his Palestinian Authority. Mainly, American diplomats are pushing to convert Arafat's presidency to a purely ceremonial post, shifting the real business of running the government to a new, popularly elected Prime Minister. But Arafat has other ideas...