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...particularly infuriated the President and her supporters is Cobos' attempt to mediate in the standoff between the president and Argentina's autonomous central bank, which has refused to hand over $6.6 billion that the cash-hungry government says it needs to pay off foreign creditors. Opposition legislators see the request for cash as the latest in a series of asset grabs by Argentina's Peronist government and a populist play ahead of next year's elections. When President Fernandez used an emergency decree to order the seizure of assets last month, opposition members obtained a court injunction to stop them...
...level as the father of our country and above the many other Americans whose achievements approach that of Washington's" by making him one of the few individuals honored by a federal holiday. The day before the bill passed the Senate, District Judge John Lewis Smith Jr. denied Helms' request to unseal FBI surveillance tapes of King that were due to remain sealed until 2027. President Reagan signed the bill into law in November 1983 and the first official holiday was observed on the third Monday of January...
...unclear whether any Lampoon members were on campus to clear the snow, and no one from the organization has returned our request for comments...
...immediately respond to a request for comment Friday. The three Pakistani intelligence officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they lacked authority to speak to media on the record. They cited field informants and sources in militant ranks...
...blind eye to their problems. Rather than increase social services or workplace regulations, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's administration has taken an increasingly popular anti-immigrant stance. About 1,000 of the African migrants in Rosarno were carted off to detention centers after the violence - some at their own request, the government says. Interior Minister Roberto Maroni, a member of the anti-immigrant Northern League party, said that "too much tolerance" had caused the unrest...