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...While the PPP plays the Thaksin card, the rival Democrats point to their record in ruling Thailand after two previous crises: the bloody military crackdown on democracy protesters in 1992, and the regionwide economic crash five years later. "We restored political calm and laid the ground for economic recovery," says Korn Chatikavanij, the party's deputy secretary general. "Our record in government is solid." Democrats are also banking on Abhisit Vejjajiva, 43, their fresh-faced, Oxford-educated leader. Abhisit is clearly Prime Ministerial material, but remains untested in high public office and is said to lack the common touch. Samak...
...soundstages to politics' brighter lights as forgiving as many had hoped. Staffers have fled his campaign in horror throughout the fall, complaining that the candidate listens only to his wife. Thompson's condition was summed up best by a New Hampshire woman who, when asked in a rival campaign's focus group for her impressions of all the candidates, responded to a picture of the TV actor by saying, "Is he still running...
...Hajj's murder came two days after a parliamentary session to elect a new President was postponed for the eighth time, and is certain to aggravate tensions between rival pro- and anti-Syrian factions. The bombing, said Information Minister Ghazi Aridi, "is a message to the Lebanese that the situation in Lebanon will remain fragile and that security will remain a target...
...Hajj's murder is certain to stir further calls by the March 14 bloc to directly elect Suleiman by a simple parliamentary majority to avoid a prolonged void. The opposition has warned that such a move would be countered by street demonstrations and possibly the establishment of a rival government...
...seems that bridging the impasse between the rival Lebanese factions looks further away than ever...