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Peru's controversial election process looks set to provoke new street protests in Lima - and a painful decision in Washington. Opposition candidate Alejandro Toledo withdrew late Thursday from the May 28 presidential runoff election against President Alberto Fujimori, after Fujimori's government refused to comply with a call by election monitors to postpone the poll. The monitors of the Organization of American States, with Washington's backing, had expressed grave reservations over irregularities in the first-round ballot - won by Fujimori, but without a sufficient majority to avoid a runoff - and urged postponement in order to resolve problems including candidates...
...says McGirk. "So a lot of the goodwill he earned over eight years has drained away, both in Washington and among Peruvians themselves." Indeed, there is very little difference between Fujimori and his challenger on economic policy, although Toledo is promising political reforms. But Toledo's withdrawal strips the runoff election of any meaning, and that forces Washington, and Peru's Latin American neighbors, to either live with a Peruvian president whose election they've certified as undemocratic or else find a way of persuading the notoriously intractable Fujimori to back down without plunging his fragile country into chaos...
...that the hard way, as they're battered by conservative opponents whose control of the judiciary and the all-powerful Council of Guardians gives them the power to deny the reformists the fruits of their convincing February election win. Iranians went to the polls Friday in 66 constituencies for runoff votes after they'd failed to produce clear victors in the first round, amid signs of a furious conservative backlash. Since February, the conservative judiciary has closed down the pro-reform press, imprisoning a number of journalists and other prominent liberals. The Council of Guardians has also dragged its feet...
...Like some deals 4. U.S./Canada's __ Canals 7. Dig find 9. The Duma-approved __ II treaty 11. He forced a runoff in Peru 12. Clinton doesn't want one 14. A geisha may tie one on 15. Bacon bit? 17. Ambient music composer Brian 18. Name of two Pulitzer-winning papers in 2000 20. Ridge, who wants Republicans to modify or drop their abortion plank 21. Bush said he's "a better person" for meeting them 22. Author Steve, who has named JonBenet's mom as a suspect 24. Big bash 25. 1999 Frank McCourt memoir 26. Bush...
...that rob oxygen from the water, killing sea life. The Mississippi River, whose fine heartland silt once built fertile delta wetlands, now builds in the Gulf of Mexico a spreading dead zone--almost devoid of marine life--the size of New Jersey. Improving sewage treatment and cleaning up the runoff from farms will be increasingly vital to preserving coastal water quality...