Word: selecter
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Trouillot must also navigate her way through the demands and desires of some 20 political parties. In a rare demonstration of unity, opposition leaders banded together in the so-called Group of 12 to press for Avril's ouster and select the new President. But that unity is expected to crumble as soon as campaigning begins. Until the election, Trouillot must govern in tandem with a 19-member Council of State, composed of representatives from social groups and geographic regions. The panel has veto power over presidential decisions -- and that alone could stymie progress toward elections...
...plan called for elections among the 1.7 million Arabs in the West Bank and Gaza to choose representatives who would then negotiate a period | of limited autonomy with Israel. To get the elections off the ground, Baker proposed a formula under which Egypt, Israel and the U.S. would select Palestinian delegates for preliminary talks...
Most Central Committee members over the age of 60, or about half the total of 174, have offered to resign in anticipation of an extraordinary party congress scheduled for next month that will select a new President. Both Batmonh and Prime Minister Dumaagiyn Sodnom, 56, have reportedly volunteered to quit their government posts when the People's Great Hural, Mongolia's parliament, next convenes. The government has also agreed to include the opposition in a commission that is to draft a new constitution...
...everything goes according to plan, peace in the Middle East is just four steps away. First, Secretary of State James Baker will meet in Washington with the Egyptian and Israeli foreign ministers to select a Palestinian delegation. That group, in turn, will travel to Cairo, where Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak will be host for preliminary talks in which the Palestinians and an Israeli delegation will set down the ground rules for elections in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. They will use as their framework a proposal put forward ten months ago by Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir...
...wrongdoing may even be traced to the CIA. According to the Houston Post, the intelligence agency had connections with 22 now failed thrifts, whose officers used depositors' funds for loans to CIA operatives involved in "gunrunning, drug smuggling, money laundering and covert aid to the Nicaraguan contras." The House Select Committee on Intelligence promised last week to look into the charges, which the CIA has denied...