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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49332)	10/26/2005 3:52:46 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

Iraqis have ratified their new constitution, the results of a referendum showed on Tuesday, October 25. Electoral Commission officials told a news conference 78 percent of voters backed the charter and 21 percent opposed it. Of 18 provinces, only two recorded "No" votes greater than two thirds, one province short of a veto. Turnout in the October 15 referendum was 63 percent, commission officials had said previously. The current constitution of Iraq was approved by an October 15, 2005 ratification vote. The proposed constitution was drafted in 2005 by members of the Interim Iraqi Government to replace the Law of Administration for the State of Iraq for the Transitional Period, which had been put in force by the Coalition Provisional Authority after the invasion and occupation of Iraq by the United States and Coalition forces. Only three of the 15 Sunni members of the drafting committee attended the signing ceremony, and none of them signed it. Sunni leaders were generally urging the electorate to reject the constitution in the 15 October referendum. A two-thirds rejection vote in three of the country's 18 provinces (of which four are thought to comprise Sunni majorities) would have required the dissolution of the Assembly, fresh elections, and the recommencement of the entire drafting process. After the deadline for its conclusion was extended on four occasions, the text of the proposed constitution was read to the National Assembly on Sunday, 28 August 2005. It describes the state as a "democratic, federal, representative republic" (art. 1) (however, the division of powers is to be deferred until the first parliament convenes), and a "multiethnic, multi-religious and multi-sect country" (art. 3). en.wikipedia.org

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49332)	10/27/2005 6:24:36 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

This Day in History 1978: Anwar el-Sadat and Menachem Begin awarded Nobel Peace Prize On this day in 1978, Anwar el-Sadat of Egypt and Menachem Begin of Israel were awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace for negotiations that resulted first in the Camp David Accords, then in a peace treaty between their countries. More events on this day 2000: At a concert near Tel Aviv, the music of German composer Richard Wagner, which many associate with the Nazi regime, was played for the first time in public in Israel. 1979: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, an island nation lying within the Lesser Antilles in the eastern Caribbean Sea, achieved its independence. 1968: Lise MeitnerPhysicist Lise Meitner, whose research (along with that of Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann) led to the discovery of nuclear fission, died in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England. 1961: The first Saturn rocket was successfully launched, and years later the Saturn V was the launch vehicle used in the Apollo moon-landing flights. 1795: Pinckney's Treaty, an agreement between the United States and Spain, was signed, giving the United States navigation rights on the Mississippi River. 1492: Christopher Columbus, oil painting, said to be the most accurate likeness of the explorer, …Christopher Columbus sailed to Cuba and claimed the island for Spain. 939: Athelstan, the first king to rule over all of England, died.

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49332)	10/28/2005 7:31:42 AM
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This day in history.. Statue of Liberty dedicated 1886: The Statue of Liberty, a gift from the people of France to the people of the United States on the occasion of America's 100th anniversary in 1876, was officially dedicated this day in 1886 by U.S. President Grover Cleveland. 1971: Great Britain launched Prospero, the first of four X-3 satellites. 1965: The Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri, designed by Finnish-born American architect Eero Saarinen to commemorate St. Louis's historic role as “Gateway to the West,” was completed. 1962: Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev capitulated to U.S. demands to halt delivery of nuclear-armed missiles to Cuba, bringing an end to the Cuban missile crisis. 1919: The U.S. Congress overrode President Woodrow Wilson's veto and passed the Volstead Act, providing enforcement guidelines for Prohibition. 1918: Tomáš Masaryk, Edvard Beneš, and other leaders issued a proclamation announcing the formation of an independent Czechoslovakian state. 1790: Spain, yielding to British demands, signed the convention that resolved the Nootka Sound controversy. 1636: Harvard University, the oldest institute of higher learning in the United States, was founded by the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.