Word: unpopularity
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...under U.S. command. But while such an arrangement may accommodate some of the concerns raised by the reluctant nations, the more important challenge the U.S. will face is the demand to begin ceding its political authority in Baghdad. UN member states are keenly aware that the current occupation is unpopular among Iraqis and in the wider Arab and Muslim world: Even the members of the IGC are unhappy about the open-ended nature of U.S.-British control. "Iraq is under occupation," current IGC president Ibrahim Jafari said on Wednesday. "We want to do all we can to reduce the time...
...governor. But because of a quirk of electoral politics--and because no other Democrat wanted to take the plunge--Bustamante, 50, became the "just in case" candidate for his party in the current recall election. He is the party's pick if the Republican juggernaut succeeds in driving his unpopular boss, Governor Gray Davis, out of office. His main qualifications for the role seem to be a list of things he's not: he's not a millionaire, he's not a joke, and he's not Gray Davis...
Schwarzenegger expects to campaign against the state's high workers' compensation premiums, which he blames for driving businesses away. He is also considering proposals for rolling back the unpopular vehicle-license fee, which the legislature and Democratic Governor Gray Davis recently tripled to help close a giant budget gap. A spending freeze is likely to be part of Schwarzenegger's economic program...
...rebels' only stated goal is the ouster of President Charles Taylor, a recently indicted war criminal who insists he is willing to step down and go into exile in Nigeria but keeps creating excuses to postpone his departure. In any case, the opposition is so fragmented and unpopular that there's no obvious candidate to replace him. So it is that even as hordes of angry Liberians dumped dead bodies at the gates of the U.S. embassy in Monrovia in a desperate plea for American help last week, Taylor held a state funeral for his beloved mother, who died...
...Nigeria's previous interventions in Liberia and Sierra Leone have been somewhat messy: Hundreds of Nigerian troops were killed, making the deployments unpopular domestically. And in retaking the capital of Sierra Leone from rebel fighters, Nigerian forces displayed a brutality akin to that of some of the region's warlords, and UN officials later accused some Nigerian officers of corruption. More immediately, veterans of previous peacekeeping operations have warned that the scale of the Nigerian force envisaged for Liberia is insufficient to stabilize Monrovia...