Word: unpopular
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...state of refuge. It started in the fall of 1997, when Sheinbein fled Maryland to Israel soon after the discovery of Tello's burned and dismembered body. Preferring to take his chances with the Israeli justice system, Sheinbein fought extradition back to the U.S. In a decision that was unpopular with both the Israeli and U.S. governments, Israel's supreme court sided with Sheinbein, and said he would stand trial there. Sheinbein agreed to the plea in August, and a court spent the next two months reviewing the arrangement before finally approving it Sunday...
...fire armed forces chief General Parvez Musharaf. "The conflict between the generals and Nawaz dates back to the prime minister?s decision in the summer, under pressure from Washington, to order his army to end its Kashmir incursion," says TIME New Delhi correspondent Maseeh Rahman. "That decision was terribly unpopular in the army and in Pakistani society more generally, and may have precipitated Nawaz?s downfall...
President-elect Moscoso takes office with enough troubles already. She lacks a legislative majority, and any concession allowing the U.S. military back into Panama would be unpopular. Moscoso picked up her political acumen from her late husband, though a 46-year age gap separated her from the former President, Arnulfo Arias. His career provides a sobering lesson. Arias was elected three times, and each time the army deposed him. Diplomats in Panama say Moscoso knows she must tread cautiously. She has vowed to keep politics out of the handover, entrusting the canal's operations to the autonomous Panama Canal Authority...
...would be biased if the U.C. ran thereferendum," Davis said. "These are desperate,unpopular leaders clinging to power...
...just returned from Washington having secured an IMF loan. "This was the most inexplicable of all Yeltsin?s decisions," says Meier. "Stepashin was a loyal servant, and Putin is simply a poor man?s Stepashin." Putin now contemplates entering the presidential race with the endorsement of the deeply unpopular Yeltsin, which is widely viewed as akin to the kiss of death. That?s if he survives the political life of a Yeltsin prime minister, which these days, is increasingly nasty, brutish and short...