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Sher Bahadur Deuba becomes prime minister. Sher Bahadur Deuba was born in Ruwa Khola Ashigram-5 in Dadeldhura district of Mahakali zone on June 13, 1946. Deuba, who was elected leader of the Nepali Congress parliamentary party after the Mid-term Election in 1994, served as prime minister for about one and a half years since 1995. Deuba, 55, who started his political career at the age of 19, spent nine years in prison for his political beliefs. Who was president of the Far-Western Students' Committee, Kathmandu from 1965 to 1968, was also the founder member of Nepal Students' Union in 1970. He had played an active role in the promotion of multiparty democracy in Nepal during the National Referendum of 1980. He worked as the convenor of the political consultative committee of the Nepali Congress from 1982 to 1988. Also played an active role in the civil disobedience movement in 1985 and the movement for restoration of democracy in the country. He also lobbied for democracy in Nepal in the western countries during the popular movement of 1990. Deuba, who successfully fulfilled his responsibility as the political in-charge of the Far Western Region of the Nepali Congress in 1991, has been elected member of parliament three times from Dadeldhura district of the Far Western Development Region. He served as home minister during the three and a half year's tenure of the Nepali Congress government. Received his M.A. degree in humanities from Tribhuvan University in 1972 and Bachelors Degree in Law from the same university in 1975. He was a research fellow in political science at London school of economics from 1988 to 1990. Deuba has visited the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Bhutan, the Maldives, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Japan, Germany, France and Sweden. He has his father, wife and a son. |
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Indonesia's national assembly impeached President Abdurahman Wahid and elected his deputy Megawati Sukarnoputri as head of state. Born in 1947, Megawati Sukarnoputri is the daughter of Indonesia's first president, Sukarno (Sukarnoputri means 'daughter of Sukarno'). She has been married three times and has three children. Although she attended two universities, she never achieved a degree. Megawati became a prominent political figure in Indonesia when she won control of the Christian-nationalist Indonesian Democratic Party (the PDI) in 1995. Megawati launched her opposition to President Suharto who she accused of nepotism and corruption. In June 1996, a government backed faction ousted her from leadership of the PDI, sparking bloody riots in Jakarta. After Suharto was forced from power, Megawati emerged as the leader of the newly formed faction, the PDI-P &endash; the Indonesia Struggle for Democracy Party. The party won the most seats in the June 1999 election, but did not achieve an outright majority. Although she was the popular choice to become Indonesia's fourth president, Megawati was defeated in a parliamentary vote for the president by Abdurrahman Wahid. She was later appointed as Wahid's Vice President. |
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34th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting Ha Noi Declaration on narrowing Development GAP for Closer ASEAN Integration. WE, the Foreign Ministers of the ASEAN Member countries representing Brunei Darussalam, the Kingdom of Cambodia, the Republic of Indonesia, the Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, the Union of Myanmar, the Republic of the Philippines, the Republic of Singapore, the Kingdom of Thailand and the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam. ACKNOWLEDGING that the benefits of globalization are at present unevenly distributed and that the development gap among nations and regions would be further widened without effective measures to address the negative impact of globalization. RECALLING the commitment of the ASEAN leaders, proclaimed in the ASEAN Vision 2020 at. the Second informal ASEAN Summit in Kuala Lumpur in 1997, to promote equitable economic development and the reduction of poverty and economic disparities in the ASEAN region and in the Hanoi Plan of Action adopted at the 6th ASEAN Summit in Hanoi, in 1998 prescribing concrete measures to reduce the development gap among ASEAN Member Countries and to promote the economic integration of the new Member Countries into ASEAN: and EVOKING the decision of the ASEAN leaders on the Initiative for ASEAN Integration (IAI) adopted at the Fourth Informal Summit in Singapore in 2000, giving direction to and sharpening the focus of collective efforts in ASEAN to narrow the development gap within ASEAN as well as between ,ASEAN and other parts of the world. |
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IWC - 53rd Annual Meeting of the International Whaling Commission - London At this 53rd Annual IWC the protests from Greenpeace and other environmental organizations are unlikely to be able to halt a vote for the change. Under the proposed Revised Management Scheme, which would govern the resumption of commercial whaling, monitors would check that catch limits aren't exceeded. A possible obstacle to lifting the ban in July is that member countries have not been able to agree on the conditions under which whaling can resume. The present proposal calls for international observers on whaling ships, the publication of data on how whales are killed, and DNA information on commercially packaged whale meat. Japan and Norway object especially to the presence of the international monitors. |
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Bulgarian Parliament Approves New Government. |
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Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba formed 13 member cabinet. List of Ministers who were announced. 1. Sher Bahadur Deuba : Royal Palace, Defence, Foreign Affiars, Industries, Women, General Adminstration, Law. / 2.Chiranjivi Wagle : Housing, Physical Planning and Transportation / 3.Khum Bahadur Khadga : Home and Local Development. / 4.Gopal Man Shrestha : Forest. / 5.Bijay Kumar Gachedar: Water Resources. / 6.Bal Bahadur K.C : Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation / 7.Sharad Singh Bhandari : Health. / 8.Ram Sharan Mahat : Finance. 9.Palten Gurung : Labour. 10.Jay Prakash Gupta : Information and communication. / 11.MaheshAcharya : Agriculture. / 12.Amod Prasad Upadhya : Education. / 13.P. L. Singh : Environment and Population. Profils next week |
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New Labour Party General Secretary named A 57-year-old trade union leader has been named as the new General Secretary of the Labour Party. David Triesman, General Secretary of the Association of University Teachers, will take over from Margaret McDonagh. He was selected from a short-list of five candidates by Labour's national executive. |
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Ex-Labour minister dies. Former Labour minister Neil George Lord Carmichael of Kelvingrove has died at 78. His fellow Labour peer, Lord Graham of Edmonton, said Lord Carmichael died after a stroke. He had been ill for some time. As Neil Carmichael, he was elected as MP for Glasgow Woodside in 1962, a seat he represented until 1974. Then under boundary reorganisation he became MP for Glasgow Kelvingrove, until he left the Commons in 1983 after being defeated in the Glasgow Hillhead constituency by the SDP candidate Roy Jenkins. He served as a junior minister in Harold Wilson's Labour government from 1967 to 1970 as a transport and then a technology minister. When Labour was re-elected in 1974 he was made under-secretary at the Department of the Environment before moving to the Department of Industry the following year. He left the Government when James Callaghan became Prime Minister in 1976. After that, he was active on the backbenches before being made a life peer after his removal from the Commons in 1983. In the Lords, he returned to the front bench with Labour still in opposition. He served both as Labour's spokesman in the Lords on transport and Scottish affairs until 1997. |
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President Yoweri Museveni made wide-ranging changes in his new Cabinet. SEE NEW GOVERNMENT NEXT WEEK |
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The leader of the Muslim-based United Development Party (PPP), veteran politician Hamzah Haz was elected as Indonesia's new vice president. The 61-year-old Haz, who was trained as an economist and has served two cabinet stints, is the chairman of the PPP, Indonesia's third largest party. |
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Former chancellor (1964-70) Josef Klaus dies. Josef Klaus profil : Born 15 August 1910 in Mauthen (Karintie). He was drafted into the army and fought in World War II on the Axis side. Chosen leader (1963) of the business- and church-oriented People's party, Klaus tended to oppose compromises with the party's coalition partner, the Socialists. He became chancellor in 1964 and was succeeded in 1970 by the Socialist Bruno Kreisky. |
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Pérou, Alejandro Toledo, élu le 3 juin, prend officiellement ses fonctions de président. Toledo profil : One of 16 children, Toledo was born and raised in the grimy port village of Chimbote. His father was a bricklayer and his mother sold fish at markets, and he himself worked as a shoeshine boy. At age 16, with the guidance of members of the Peace Corps, Toledo enrolled at the University of San Francisco on a one-year scholarship. He continued his education, obtaining a partial soccer scholarship and making up the difference by pumping gas. In addition to two masters degrees, he earned a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford, where he met his wife, Elaine Karp, a Belgian-born American anthropologist. Currently a business-school professor, Toledo previously served as chief economic adviser to the president of the Central Bank and minister of labor under President Fernando Belaúnde. He also did a stint at the World Bank. SEE NEW GOVERNMANT NEXT WEEK |
PRESIDENTIAL VISITS
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President français visite les Pays Baltes Jacques Chirac est en visite officielle dans les pays baltes &endash; en Lituanie le 26, en Lettonie le 27 et en Estonie le 28. |
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North Korean Leader in Russia North Korean leader Kim Jong-il crossed into Russia's Far East to start a marathon train journey to Moscow for a meeting with President Vladimir Putin. |
THIS WEEK'S STORY
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Each symbol and color in
the FBI seal has special significance. The dominant
blue field of the seal and the scales on the shield
represent justice. The endless circle of 13 stars
denotes unity of purpose as exemplified by the
original 13 states. The laurel leaf has, since
early civilization, symbolized academic honors,
distinction and fame. There are exactly 46 leaves
in the two branches, since there were 46 states in
the Union when the FBI was founded in 1908. The
significance of the red and white parallel stripes
lies in their colors. Red traditionally stands for
courage, valor, strength, while white conveys
cleanliness, light, truth, and peace. As in the
American Flag, the red bars exceed the white by
one. The motto, " Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity,"
succinctly describes the motivating force behind
the men and women of the FBI. The peaked bevelled
edge which circumscribes the seal symbolizes the
severe challenges confronting the FBI and the
ruggedness of the organization. The gold color in
the seal conveys its over-all value. |
FBI FOUNDED On July 26, 1908, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is born when U.S. Attorney General Charles Bonaparte orders a group of newly hired federal investigators to report to Chief Examiner Stanley W. Finch of the Department of Justice. One year later, the Office of the Chief Examiner was renamed the Bureau of Investigation, and in 1935 it became the Federal Bureau of Investigation. When the Department of Justice was created in 1870 to enforce federal law and coordinate judicial policy, it had no permanent investigators on its staff. At first, it hired private detectives when it needed federal crimes investigated and later rented out investigators from other federal agencies, such as the Secret Service, which was created by the Department of the Treasury in 1865 to investigate counterfeiting. In the early part of the 20th century, the attorney general was authorized to hire a few permanent investigators, and the Office of the Chief Examiner, which consisted mostly of accountants, was created to review financial transactions of the federal courts. Seeking to form an independent and more efficient investigative arm, in 1908 the Department of Justice hired 10 former Secret Service employees to join an expanded Office of the Chief Examiner. The date when these agents reported to duty--July 26, 1908--is celebrated as the genesis of the FBI. By March 1909, the force included 34 agents, and Attorney General George Wickersham, Bonaparte's successor, renamed it the Bureau of Investigation. The federal government used the bureau as a tool to investigate criminals who evaded prosecution by passing over state lines, and within a few years the number of agents had grown to more than 300. The agency was opposed by some in Congress, who feared that its growing authority could lead to abuse of power. With the entry of the United States into World War I in 1917, the bureau was given responsibility in investigating draft resisters, violators of the Espionage Act of 1917, and immigrants suspected of radicalism. Meanwhile, J. Edgar Hoover, a lawyer and former librarian, joined the Department of Justice in 1917 and within two years had become special assistant to Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer. Deeply anti-radical in his ideology, Hoover came to the forefront of federal law enforcement during the so-called "Red Scare" of 1919 to 1920. He set up a card index system listing every radical leader, organization, and publication in the United States and by 1921 had amassed some 450,000 files. More than 10,000 suspected communists were also arrested during this period, but the vast majority of these people were briefly questioned and then released. Although the attorney general was criticized for abusing his power during the so-called "Palmer Raids," Hoover emerged unscathed, and on May 10, 1924, he was appointed acting director of the Bureau of Investigation. During the 1920s, with Congress' approval, Director Hoover drastically restructured and expanded the Bureau of Investigation. He built the agency into an efficient crime-fighting machine, establishing a centralized fingerprint file a crime laboratory, and a training school for agents. In the 1930s, the Bureau of Investigation launched a dramatic battle against the epidemic of organized crime brought on by Prohibition. Notorious gangsters such as George "Machine Gun" Kelly and John Dillinger met their ends looking down the barrels of bureau-issued guns, while others, like Louis "Lepke" Buchalter, the elusive head of Murder, Inc., were successfully investigated and prosecuted by Hoover's "G-men." Hoover, who had a keen eye for public relations, participated in a number of these widely publicized arrests, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, as it was known after 1935, became highly regarded by Congress and the American public. With the outbreak of World War II, Hoover revived the anti-espionage techniques he had developed during the first Red Scare, and domestic wiretaps and other electronic surveillance expanded dramatically. After World War II, Hoover focused on the threat of radical, especially communist, subversion. The FBI compiled files on millions of Americans suspected of dissident activity, and Hoover worked closely with the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) and Senator Joseph McCarthy, the architect of America's second Red Scare. In 1956, Hoover initiated COINTELPRO, a secret counterintelligence program that initially targeted the U.S. Communist Party but later was expanded to infiltrate and disrupt any radical organization in America. During the 1960s, the immense resources of COINTELPRO were used against dangerous groups such as the Ku Klux Klan but also against African American civil rights organizations and liberal anti-war organizations. One figure especially targeted was civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., who endured systematic harassment from the FBI. By the time Hoover entered service under his eighth president in 1969, the media, the public, and Congress had grown suspicious that the FBI might be abusing its authority. For the first time in his bureaucratic career, Hoover endured widespread criticism, and Congress responded by passing laws requiring Senate confirmation of future FBI directors and limiting their tenure to 10 years. On May 2, 1972, with the Watergate affair about to explode onto the national stage, J. Edgar Hoover died of heart disease at the age of 77. The Watergate affair subsequently revealed that the FBI had illegally protected President Richard Nixon from investigation, and the agency was thoroughly investigated by Congress. Revelations of the FBI's abuses of power and unconstitutional surveillance motivated Congress and the media to become more vigilant in the future monitoring of the FBI. Thanks to History Channel |
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