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...found that Panamanians wanted a break from him. In a referendum, the first national vote since U.S. troops deposed Noriega and installed Endara three years ago, 63.5% of Panamanian voters said no to the package of 58 complicated items in a simple yes or no vote. The vote was tantamount to a rejection of Endara's rule, which has left the country with 20% unemployment, rampant crime and corruption. Charging that the President is unqualified to govern, opponents will press for a constituent assembly to rewrite the constitution. Endara accepts the result but insists it does not obligate...
...REAL ISSUE. The battle is only incidentally about oilseeds. "At stake," says Robert Hormats, vice chairman of Goldman Sachs International, "is the credibility of the international trading system." At risk too is the recession-ravaged world economy: an all-out trade war would be tantamount to mutually assured economic destruction...
...mysteries surrounding the 1918 Bolshevik execution of the Romanovs. But would anyone believe the conclusions of the Russian investigators? To ensure credibility, government officials took the unprecedented step of inviting a team of American forensic experts to examine the remains and offer an independent assessment. "That's tantamount to the U.S. asking the Russians for help in investigating the death of John Kennedy," says dentist Lowell Levine, co-director of the New York State Police forensic-sciences unit...
...political problem," he says. "It requires a political solution" -- and that, as Palestinians see it, means a settlement that would bring about Israeli withdrawal from the territories. Yet the very search for a peaceful solution risks more bloodshed: hard-line Palestinians are convinced that negotiating with the Israelis is tantamount to selling out the cause. Thus, Palestinian intellectual Sari Nusseibeh suggests, as the peace process resumes and perhaps accelerates, that Palestinian militants may continue to try to sabotage it by force of arms. In that case, the sayarot will be here to stay...
...CHARGE that Ignatiev is "impress[ing] his beliefs on all others, we find it difficult to accept that voicing objection is tantamount to engaging in attempts at mind control--that beginning a debate is little more than brainwashing...