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To: NickSE who wrote (104160)	7/6/2003 5:06:09 PM
From: Ish	Respond to of 281500

<<Zimbabwe hurled racial epithets at the US secretary of state, Colin Powell, yesterday, including branding him an "Uncle Tom" after his attack on President Robert Mugabe in the New York Times last week.>> Is that the oppressed people's point of view or the oppressing government's point of view? I'd guess the latter rather than the former.

To: NickSE who wrote (104160)	7/7/2003 12:54:23 PM
From: NickSE	Respond to of 281500

Islamic Traditionalists Sweep Liberals in Kuwaiti Election nytimes.com CAIRO, July 6 — Kuwaiti liberals, hopeful that the downfall of Saddam Hussein would strengthen their efforts at modernization, suffered a stunning setback in weekend Parliamentary elections, with traditionalists winning a sweeping victory. The Islamic traditionalists, both Sunni and Shiite, took more than a third of the seats in the 50-seat Parliament in the voting on Saturday, according to early unofficial results made public today. The liberals, meanwhile, were almost wiped out. Most of the rest of the seats appear to have gone to other groups that are supporters of the royal family. The liberals, who had made extending the vote to women a major rallying cry of their campaign, had expected that the removal of the threat from neighboring Iraq's dictator would help them gain more independence from the Sabah royal family. There had been predictions of victory, with the independent newspaper Al Qabas commenting only last Friday that the new Parliament "has to be a turning point in eliminating the flaws of our democracy." But the trend was clearly against the liberals. The extent of their debacle was somewhat uncertain this evening because of varying accounts and tallies coming from the tiny, oil-rich emirate. [cont'd.....]