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...meant to assuage the concerns of France and Russia, which could veto any resolution. But while Paris seemed resigned to accepting the new U.S. proposal, Moscow looked likely to test Bush's patience further. YUGOSLAVIA Arms for Iraq Assistant Defense Minister Ivan Djokic was sacked following allegations that a state-run company was linked to arms sales to Iraq, in violation of U.N. sanctions. The U.S. State Department accused Jugoimport SDPR, an arms-procurement agency, of helping Orao, a Bosnian Serb firm, to sell Iraq military equipment, including spare parts for Soviet-era MiG-21 fighter planes. American and Bosnian...
...cure. "My wife did feel less pain one night when she used the locket, but her pain had been coming and going. Then she went to the doctors, and they cured her." Monica still believes in the miracle but admits that she did go to see doctors at the state-run Balurghat Hospital. "I took the medicines they gave me, but," she insists, "the locket gave me complete relief from the pain...
...Just over the border in Pakistan, Musharraf was stung by the success of Kashmir's poll. He loathes the prospect of Kashmiri acceptance of India's rule, which the successful election suggests. (State-run Pakistan TV dubbed it "a farce and a sham.") In his own election, he managed to tame Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party and Nawaz Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League. Together, they won less than half the places in the 342-seatNational Assembly. But unofficial estimates put voter turnout for the polls at around 30%?less than in Kashmir. And Musharraf failed to anticipate the rise...
...cure. "My wife did feel less pain one night when she used the locket, but her pain had been coming and going. Then she went to the doctors, and they cured her." Monica still believes in the miracle but admits that she did go to see doctors at the state-run Balurghat Hospital. "I took the medicines they gave me, but," she insists, "the locket gave me complete relief from the pain...
...state's sale of a food conglomerate - was delayed after Berlusconi's forces passed a law last October that requires judges to exclude all evidence from foreign countries that lacks the proper stamp on any of the documents. An outstanding fraud case was effectively made moot by a "false accounting'' law passed in April by the governing coalition that decriminalized all but the most serious accounting infractions. And there are the inevitable questions that on any of these issues, Berlusconi's direct or indirect control of the private TV networks and the three state-run stations slants the debate...