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...total." India, he said, had borrowed words like "democracy" and "science" from the West, but Indians were miming these words without knowing what they meant. In 1975 he visited again, railing that India?then in the midst of a crisis caused by Indira Gandhi's decision to suspend democracy?was "left alone with the blankness of its decayed civilization." The only hope, Naipaul argued, was that the country had failed so completely that Indians would reject their past and start over...
...demonstrated, H.R. 163 was never a viable proposal with any chance of becoming law. However, rumors that H.R. 163 might pass and lead to the draft’s reinstatement were so common that the House Republican leadership—which strongly opposes a draft—moved to suspend the rules and pass H.R. 163, just to show the vast margin by which it would fail...
...court has the power to immediately suspend enforcement of the Solomon Amendment nationwide...
Nuclear Showdown IRAN Days after the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) approved a resolution demanding that Iran suspend all uranium-enrichment activities, a defiant Tehran announced that it had started the conversion of some 37 tons of uranium oxide (yellowcake) into UF6-gas - the feed material for enriched uranium. Iran denies its enrichment efforts are part of a weapons program, claiming they are for electricity generation, which the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) permits. A senior official at Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Hossein Mousavian, argued that " Iran cannot be subjected only to the limitations of the treaty...
...such a move might not result in the imposition of sanctions. Even countries in favor of a Security Council referral agree that an isolated Tehran might simply end cooperation with U.N. inspections altogether. A U.S. State Department official said that the Security Council would likely only require Iran to suspend its enrichment activities, much as the IAEA has already done, but with a little more clout. - By Andrew Purvis and Nahid Siamdoust Toxic Politics UKRAINE A criminal inquiry and a parliamentary commission will investigate claims by opposition presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko that he was poisoned. Yushchenko...