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7, 1999
- Wednesday, Dec. Her strategy entails constitutional change, which Wickremensinghe's United
National Celebration opposes.
Lastly, with just a couple of days left to the flip of the calendar, everyone is watching for potential
Y2K problems (even although, as Asiaweek reported in our Dec. Wickremensinghe has offered
immediate talks with the rebels, ought to he be elected. 15, 1999
by Stuart Whitmore
- Monday, Dec. The reply: "We can observe what occurs [at midnight] in Western Samoa, New
Zealand and Australia and nonetheless have six hours to make plans."
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2. - Thursday, Dec. 13, 1999
Nearly definitely. That's simply because James Soong, the KMT renegade running as an
independent, lost his frontrunner status when allegations surfaced that he as soon as
misappropriated ruling party funds. China has let it be recognized that it can reside with anyone but
Chen.
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The second question: Will the election make a distinction? In creating their choice, the Sri Lankan
electorate will be hoping for an end to terror. 13, 1999
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- Tuesday, Dec. The Chinese government and people are confident and capable of an early
settlement of the Taiwan question and the total national reunification." How early a settlement -- and
what kind -- will be largely determined by Taiwan's subsequent elected president. But as last
Saturday showed, the likelihood of real peace appears as vestidos de comunion far away as ever.
Kumaratunga, who promised peace throughout her victorious presidential campaign in 1994, is
holding to her prior program of devolving energy to the north and east, where most of the Tamils
live. The second killed 11 people at an opposition rally outdoors the capital. Hong Kong time, five:00
a.m. 9, 1999
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3. Every company evening with analysts vestidos de comunion about the area
- Monday, Dec. 1 blast, an try to assassinate President Chandrika Kumaratunga, killed 22 and
injured the president throughout her final Colombo rally prior to Tuesday's poll. As President Jiang
Zemin stated in the Sunday ceremony marking the return of Macau to China, "The implementation
of the concept of 'one country, two systems' in Hong Kong and Macau has played and will continue
to play an important exemplary function for our eventual settlement of the Taiwan query. Â
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4. The terrorist bombings that racked Sri Lanka Saturday in the final days of the presidential election
campaign drew attention, as although any were required, to the most critical issue facing that
nation: ending the 16-year-old civil war being waged in between government forces and the
separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. The only possible cloud: Rumor of a Falungong protest
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- Monday, Dec. Here is one story now creating the Web rounds: PLN, Indonesia's national electrical
energy board, was recently asked by an Indonesian newspaper about its Y2K preparedness. 24 issue,
they are most likely to be minor). EDT
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The first query: How will the bombings affect the presidential race? Both main candidates, Mrs.
Meanwhile, Chen Sui-bian, the Taiwan-born former mayor of Taipei, seems to be choosing up
assistance with his strong pro-independence line and Lien Chan, the vice-president and protégé
of President Lee Teng-hui, is attempting to counter his rather imperious image with a new campaign
manager and a more forceful message. Both blasts were attributed to suicide bombers associated
with the Tamil Tigers.
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Another presidential race with long-term consequences is the March poll in Taiwan. Kumaratunga
and opposition candidate Ranil Wickremensinghe, have each pledged to bring an end to the violence
that has taken 60,000 lives. Already the race is intense, expensive, dirty -- and tight