IRAQIS PRESS U.S. FOR COMPROMISE TO GAIN SELF-RULE

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Iraqi Governing Council chairman Adnan Pachachi is pressing the US and the Bush administration to allow elections by the end of 2004. The Council wants to augment the plan and expand the US handpicked government as the Council prepares for direct elections. The influential Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani is beginning to demonstrate his political influence by organizing demonstrations and leading a forceful opposition to the US political strategy for Iraq.

Iraq, Political aspects, Iraq. Governing Council, Pachachi, Adnan

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Bush Nominee For U.N. Post Faces Hurdles

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The former State Department official Carl W. Ford Jr. is expected to testify against the appointment of John R. Bolton as the ambassador of the United Nations when the Senate Foreign Relations Committee holds hearings next week.

Legislative Bodies, International politics, Foreign Relations, Appointments, resignations and dismissals, United Nations, United States. Department of State, Ambassadors, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations, Foreign policy, Bolton, John R., Chafee, Lincoln, Ford, Carl W., Jr.

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