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...That's not nearly enough to form a government, but with 53 seats the dss was far short of a majority too. A coalition with the Radicals was out of the question because of their openly extremist agenda, so it was widely expected that Kostunica would turn to the reformist Democratic Party, which dominated Serbian politics until its chairman Zoran Djindjic was assassinated last March. Kostunica and Djindjic never saw eye to eye on reform, and the DSS leader failed to do a deal with Djindjic's successors, Zoran Zivkovic and Boris Tadic. Kostunica then teamed up with two smaller...
...university to declare that it could not afford to "build Fort Knox." Electoral Impasse IRAN President Mohammed Khatami said that efforts to resolve the crisis over parliamentary elections had reached a dead end after the hard-line Guardian Council refused to rescind bans on thousands of mainly reformist candidates. Officials had called for the election to be postponed, but the Council refused. In from the Cold LIBYA The U.S. praised Libya for making "real progress" toward fulfilling its commitment to dismantle its unconventional weapons program, announcing that 25,000 kg of material related to Libya's nuclear weapons and ballistic...
...underlings to reconsider their Jan. 11 decision to bar hundreds of candidates, including 80 incumbent M.P.s, from parliamentary elections next month. Otherwise, he warned, Iran might dissolve in a "chaos of disagreement." With the barring, Iran's hard-liners were hoping to regain control of the 290-member, reformist-dominated Parliament. But dissenting M.P.s began a sit-in at Parliament in protest: if the council doesn't back down, a source in the reformist camp tells TIME, they will make good on a threat to resign en masse and possibly force their moderate leader, President Mohammed Khatami, to step down...
...advocates returning Serbian troops to Kosovo, downgrading ties with the U.S. and Europe, and suing NATO for reparations for the U.S.-led bombing of Belgrade in 1999. The Radicals failed to win the majority required to form a government, but got enough seats to ensure that any coalition of reformist parties that succeeds in doing so will probably fall before the year is out, triggering another election. Reform-minded Serbs, still a majority but splintered among several parties, are glumly comparing their country to post WW-I Germany, when a series of weak governments gave way to the Nazi Party...
...reduced 35-hour workweek - a measure Lenoir calls "a nightmare." "Rather than offering assistance and incentives that are eventually shrunken down or simply taken away, the state should get out of business's way," scolds Lenoir, a proud economic liberal who thinks France's conservative government has the right reformist idea - but may lack the political courage to impose it fully. Lenoir's lament is common among French small-business owners, who form a massive economic chorus. Ninety-nine percent of France's 2.5 million businesses employ fewer than 50 people - yet they still make up 53% of the labor...