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General Tito Okello, the 71-year-old army commander who was sworn in last week as chief of state, imposed a curfew and urged calm. He promised to hold elections in the East African nation within a year. But the survival of the transitional government is precarious. Okello, a career soldier with little political experience, has appointed Obote's former Vice President and Minister of Defense, Paulo Muwanga, 60, as Prime Minister. This has caused alarm and suspicion among many Ugandans. Opposition parties charge that Muwanga organized fraudulent elections that put Obote in power in 1980, after the bloody dictator...
...biggest surprise may be that it took so long. For a full generation, Miami has been populated so heavily by refugees from Fidel Castro's dictatorship that Anglos sometimes call it "North Cuba." But not until last week was its first Cuban-born mayor sworn in. Xavier Suarez, 36, survived a preliminary election on Nov. 5, in which six-term Mayor Maurice Ferre, who was born in Puerto Rico, finished out of the running, and then defeated Raul Masvidal, 43, another Cuban refugee, in a runoff last Tuesday...
...SWORN IN. JALAL TALABANI, 71, GHAZI YAWAR, 47, and ADEL ABDUL MAHDI, 61, as Iraq's first democratically-elected President and Vice-Presidents in more than half a century; in Baghdad. Talabani, who spent years fighting the regime of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein as the head of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, becomes the first Kurdish president of an Arab-dominated country; Yawar is a tribal leader of the Sunni Muslim minority. The announcements, along with the naming of Shi'ite politician Ibrahim Jaafari, 58, as Prime Minister, followed nine weeks of deadlock in Iraq's parliament since...
...judge and jury. That means that in Zivu, and in thousands of other villages throughout Rwanda, a genocide carried out by ordinary people - the friends and neighbors of the victims - will be tried by ordinary people: the friends and neighbors of the accused. Witnesses, victims and the accused give sworn testimony in front of judges, who hand out sentences according to national guidelines. "The law will be applied to everybody," says Domitilla Mukantaganzwa, executive secretary of the National Jurisdiction for Gacaca Services. Over the past 10 years, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha, Tanzania, has completed trying just...
...England. "Seeing Johnny Damon in a suit was an interesting sight," he joked. And the World Champion Boston Red Sox weren't the only athletes on the Hill last week. Virginia Reps. Bob Goodlatte (R), Virgil Goode (R) and Jim Moran (D) were there as Shaquille O'Neal was sworn in as an honorary deputy U.S. marshal as part of his work with the Safe Surfin' Foundation, a group that works on protecting kids from meeting potential sexual predators online. Next week could also be star-studded: As part of a hearing on steroids, the House Government Reform Committee...