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...Haass admitted that the various timetables for withdrawal all have downsides. If we park a few divisions in the north of the country, he said, Baghdad burns. If we ask for allies to form a trusteeship, he noted, none will come. "It's inapplicable now," he said, in a tart dismissal. And he is not sure there is any public will for more troops-even if we had them to send. "We are reaching a tipping point both on the ground but also in the political debate in the United States... about Iraq. We are reaching the point... where simply...
...Some senior U.S. lawmakers recognize that outside troops will have to be deployed between the Israelis and Palestinians. Former U.S. ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk proposes a ?trusteeship for Palestine? - Israel would withdraw from the occupied territories, which would be administered by an international body that could provide the troops to protect the sovereignty of both sides and could oversee the democratization of Palestinian political institutions. Kosovo might provide something of a precedent, with NATO troops guaranteeing security and the UN running the political administration for an interim period likely to last at least a decade. Of course such plans...
Workers soon gained another advocate when the SEIU international union placed Local 254 into trusteeship in February...
Devlin says the union regained its strength after it went into trusteeship and became involved with PSLM members...
...this sounds innocuous enough, and yet the janitors’ renegotiations demonstrate how pernicious no strike clauses can be. The last contract the janitors made was negotiated by a union that was so notoriously corrupt it was put under international trusteeship in 2001. The more robust union representing the janitors today wanted to renegotiate that contract early, and it was able to do so as a result of the labor demonstrations last spring. But since the negotiations were conducted nine months before the old contract was fit to expire, the no strike clause was firmly in effect, limiting the union?...