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Top Stories Wikipedia Current Events "running out of patience" with Vanuatu over ban on Fijian biscuits Multiple deaths as Congolese •Following a public statement from the government cracks down on pro- denomination president on the eve of the Fiji's Foreign Minister, Kaliopate Tavola, democracy protests event, the congregationalist United Church said that the letter being sent to Vanuatu's Thousands of protesters are marching of Christ begins their 5-day General Synod prime minister would be the final gesture of through the streets of 25 in Atlanta, Georgia to debate a number Fiji's friendship. Kinshasa demanding that of controversial resolutions, including the government resign over same-sex marriage. In March, the island nation Vanuatu banned delayed elections. They the importation of Fijian biscuits. This was were met by security forces •Indonesian police arrest 24 people the second ban on Fijian biscuits by who shot in the air and threw tear-gas suspected of involvement in the 2002 Bali Vanuatu in the last six months. Vanuatu has grenades. bombings and a 2003 attack on the said that this ban is necessary in order to Unconfirmed reports state that four people Marriott Hotel in Jakarta. stimulate Vaunatu's biscuit industry. have been killed. The members of the Australian Senate • The company affected by this ban, Flour elected at the election of 2004 take office, Mills of Fiji, exports nearly US$900,000 Spain legalizes same-sex marriage granting the government of John Howard worth of biscuits to Vanuatu yearly. Flour Spain, a predominantly Catholic country, control of both Houses of Parliament, the Mills of Fiji has said that the ban has forced became the third nation first time a government has had such them to layoff about a dozen people. They Thursday to legalize same- power since 1981. sex marriage following The also stated that they will be taking legal Netherlands and Belgium. •Much of the government of Minnesota action against the Vanuatu government for shuts down as the state legislature fails to the ban. By a vote of 187-147 with pass a budget by the end of the fiscal year. four abstentions, the 350-seat On June 13 the Fijian government Congress of Deputies approved the •In the UK, cot death expert Sir Roy announced its intention to stop all measure to give same-sex couples the same Meadow testifies before the General commercial relations with Vanuatu unless rights as heterosexual couples, including Medical Council hearing. He was involved this issue was resolved. Commercial the right to adopt children and inherit each with four court cases where four women relations with Vanuatu include Air Vanuatu others' property. were falsely accused of killing their flights and the importation of Vanuatu kava. children. Medical journal The Lancet Fijian imports of Vanuatu kava bring USA lifts remaining sanctions on Serbia defends him saying that he is just a approximately VT350 million (US$3.2 and Montenegro "scapegoat". million) to Vanuatu each year. U.S. President George W. •In the Democratic Republic of Congo, at Bush suspended all least 10 people have died during protests United States Supreme Court Justice sanctions on Serbia and over delay to the presidential elections. O'Connor to retire Montenegro by a decree Opposition claims the numbers are closer yesterday. Serbia and to 42. Montenegro was under various degrees of economic and other •In Germany, the Bundestag passes a sanctions by the United Nations and Motion of no confidence in the individual countries since 1992. government of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder by 296 to 151. The vote, at Schröder's insistence, opens the way for Wikipedia Current Events new elections to be held on September 18. President George W. Bush speaks via phone to •U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day •Italian police in Genoa discover a parallel O'Connor announces her retirement after Sandra Day O'Connor, shortly after she submitted police force, called the Department of her letter of resignation citing personal reasons. 24 years of service on the Court. Anti-terrorism Strategic Studies, that was The letter sits on the desk. •The UK assumes the rotating presidency apparently founded to benefit from of the European Union amidst its funding funding after 2004 Madrid bombings. The United States Supreme Court Associate crisis. group's website is now down Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, 75, announced Friday her intention to retire

If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit e n . wikinews.org Saturday, July 2, 2005 Wikinews Page 2 from the court. She said she would be abstained from voting. a town 700 km southeast of Kinshasa. In stepping down before the beginning of the another province, heavy weapons were fired court's fall term, or when the Senate After the lost motion of confidence, the at protesters. Casualties are as yet unknown. confirms a successor. German President Horst Köhler can The Congolese government has declined to examine Schröder's arguments for three confirm or deny any casualty figures. More than 10 years have passed since the weeks and dissolve the Bundestag while last vacancy on the Supreme Court, the setting a date for early elections. At least Unrest has been growing among the 60 highest court in the United States. Justice one deputy has announced he intends going million residents in Congo - a former Stephen Breyer was the last jurist appointed to the Federal Constitutional Court to Belgian colony - over delays to the first to the court; Breyer was appointed by appeal against Schöder's way of using the democratic elections to be held for forty President Bill Clinton. This will be vote of confidence. The court will then have years. The elections - which should have President George W. Bush's first to decide whether it was constitutional or been held before last Thursday - were opportunity to appoint a justice to the court. not. agreed upon as part of a peace treaty that ended a five year civil war in 2003 - a war There has been no word from the White All parties know that there might be early that had seen the deaths of four million House on who might replace O'Connor. elections by September. At the moment, people. However, shortly after the retirement was opinion polls are showing a majority for announced, President Bush held a short conservative opposition. The current President made a television press-conference outside the White House This article contains first-hand journalism address to the nation the night before the where he praised O'Connor's years of public by a Wikinews Reporter. deadline appealing for calm and re-iterating service. his desire to see elections. This article contains first-hand journalism Multiple deaths as Congolese by a Wikinews Reporter. government cracks down on pro- Protest organisers say the people were just democracy protests peacefully demonstrating their desire to see Schröder loses motion of confidence the interim government resign, but were attacked without provocation by security The German Federal Chancellor forces. The government had recently (Bundskanzler), Gerhard Schröder, lost a announced another six month delay before motion of confidence in the German lower elections could take place. parliamentary house, the Bundestag. Schröder had aimed to lose the vote of Africa faces food crisis, UN Security confidence in order to dissolve the Council told Bundestag and to achieve earlier elections. In debate, Schröder argued, that there is no The head of the World Food Programme, safe majority for his policy in the Thousands of protesters are marching James Morris, has told the United Nations Bundestag. In his second term as through the streets of Kinshasa demanding Security Council that Africa is facing a food Chancellor, he tried to start a reform agenda that the government resign over delayed crisis, with one in three people there (Agenda 2010) which aimed to cut the elections. malnourished. budget deficit and unemployment in Germany, which has been criticised as neo- Kinshasa - a city with nine million residents Zimbabwe is one country that Morris is liberalism by several supporters of his party. - is the capital of the Democratic Republic particulary concerned about at the moment. of the Congo. During the debate, opposition leader Angela “It does not matter whether that instability is Merkel explained that her party, the They were met by security forces who shot caused by civil conflict, drought, AIDS, Christian Democrats supports early in the air and threw tear-gas grenades at the poor governance or any combination of elections. However, she did criticise the protestors. Army helicopters flew overhead those factors-hunger almost always comes coalition government of the Social- as protesters threw stones at soldiers. with it,” said Morris, the head of the Democrats and the Greens, for the country's Security Council. high unemployment rates (which have The UN in Congo have said that four peaked at 5 million) and low economic people may have been killed in Kinshasa, “The impact of rural-urban migration on growth. A Green deputy, Werner Schulz, but that is not yet confirmed. A journalist in employment in Africa has been precisely attacked Schröder's using the vote of the area saw bruised and bandaged the opposite of Western Europe and the confidence in order to achieve early protesters who said they had been beaten by United States - it has led to higher rather elections, which is from his point of view police, and a local TV station broadcast than lower rates of unemployment and unconstitutional. Franz Müntefering, leader images of a protester who they said had social instability. of the Social Democrats had invited been shot dead. The station was raided members of the ruling coalition to abstain shortly afterwards by police. “At a certain point the capacities of local from voting. 151 deputies supported governments are stretched to the limit and Schröder, 296 voted against him and 148 Another six people were killed in Tshikapa, social demands are not met, especially

If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit www.wikinews.org Saturday, July 2, 2005 Wikinews Page 3 among competing ethnic groups perhaps not state to continue to provide services employees and three were out of 1,000 accustomed to sharing the same political essential to "health, safety and property." season-pass holders. So out of that space.” population of 1,100 people, we should see US officials accused of covering up one case of CJD every 909 years.” In addition to Zimbabwe, 1.6 million in human deaths from BSE and Malawi, 1.2 million in Zambia, 900,000 in discouraging testing of suspected animals Leitzinger, Forbes-Robinson win the Mozambique, 245,000 in Lesotho, 230,000 Brumos Porsche 250 at Daytona in Swaziland, and 60,000 in Namibia all Dr. Lester Friedlander, a former United need emergency food aid. States Department of Agriculture (USDA) vet, had been blowing the whistle on the According to Morris, the World Food USDA beef inspection practices before the Programme has been told by the Zimbabwe latest case of bovine spongiform government that they will feed the people, encephalopathy (BSE) was confirmed. Dr. which goes against the policies of the WFP. Friedlander said that inspectors are allowed only 15 seconds of inspection and that Morris highlighted the effects hunger can unhygienic practices are common in the Butch Leitzinger and Elliot Forbes- have - destabilizing countries and meat industry; practices such as cow Robinson drove the #4 Pontiac Crawford threatening peace and security. Food carcasses with abscesses being hosed off, GTO into victory lane at Daytona shortages are driving people into urban wrapped up and shipped to the consumer. International Speedway late Thursday night areas, where they are confronted by high as the winner of the Rolex sport car series unemployment and social instability. Friedlander also claims that some Brumos Porsche 250. Early in the race, the supervisors were more concerned about #66 car driven by Jorg Bergmeister and Minnesota state government shuts down falsifying inspection documents than Max Papis passed the #10 car in the pole protecting consumers and that on June 9, position, maintaining the lead positions for Nine thousand state employees in 2005, a cow in Texas with BSE symptoms most of the race. Minnesota were left jobless Friday after was sent straight to the rendering plant state legislators failed to pass a spending without testing. bill that would have kept the state government up and running. There have also been allegations of a "don't ask,don't tell" approach being applied by "I'd like to say I'm sorry to the people of US health officials when confronted with Minnesota," said Republican state Rep. Rod human deaths which may be caused by The second caution at lap 32 occured after a Hamilton of Mountain Lake. "This is eating BSE contaminated meat. The car spun on the infield. The caution lasted 3 disgusting." Organic Consumers Association reported laps, and only two laps later a two-car crash last year that hundreds of people are dying happened, sending the race into its third It is not uncommon for states to miss their in the US each year from Creutzfeldt-Jakob caution. The #06 car, driven by Rob Dyson budget deadlines, but Minnesota, in contrast Disease (CJD or vCJD) (the human and Harrison Brix, lost a portion of the car's to other states, has no law that automatically counterpart of BSE) and the deaths are hood on lap 43 and had to pit, causing the extends the previous budget if lawmakers being written off as "unexplainable". The car to drop down a lap. fail to approve a new budget. disease causes holes in the brains of the victims. The Howard-Boss Motorsports #4 car stole Governor Tim Pawlenty accused Democrats the lead position from the #19 Finlay of intentionally shutting down the A New Jersey lawyer, Janet Skarbek is Motorsports car at lap 47, a position it government in order to hurt the Republican being called "the next Erin Brockovich " for would hold for the remainder of the race. governor's chances in the 2006 her research into the "Cherry Hill cluster" of The #10 car with drivers Wayne Taylor and gubernatorial elections. 12 deaths she said were caused by people Max Angelelli silently climbed back up to eating BSE infected meat;"I'm up to 12 the 2nd position with 17 laps to go. The "The Senate wanted to shut down confirmed cases of CJD, where it says CJD debuting #65 Pontiac GTO car, sponsored government from the beginning," said Steve on their death certificates and where they all by Auto Gallery, was hit on the backstretch Sviggum, the leading Republican in the ate at the same racetrack.” Skarbek said. in the left front tire, causing him to spin and Minnesota House of Representatives. hit the wall with 14 laps to go. A similar New Jersey state officials have said that the event happened five laps later when another Due to the shutdown, highway rest-stops 12 deaths were not a result from the human car spun out. Neither instances resulted in a will not be staffed during the busy July form of mad cow disease, but rather from caution. Fourth weekend. Lawmakers agreed, sporadic CJD; but Skarbek says the This article contains first-hand journalism however, to a bill that would keep the state's government's numbers don't add up.“If you by a Wikinews Reporter. parks open. just take five of the victims from New Jersey that ate at the track most recently, Romania redenominates its currency A court order earlier this month requires the two were out of 100 administrative

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The reason for redenomination was mainly The figures show that the number of people the fact that the leu had become severely recieving ART is increasing in every part of devalued, especially in the 1990s, due to the globe, but not as quickly as people are Today, Romania introduces its new high inflation rates. From 2002 onwards, contracting HIV. The numbers getting redenominated currency, the new leu (code: the leu stabilised, and has even appreciated treatment in sub-Saharan Africa, the part of RON), which is valued at 10,000 old lei against the euro and the US dollar in the the world worst affected by HIV/AIDS has (code: ROL). The process, which is known past year. Hence, the new leu was increased three-fold on a year ago, and as redenomination, started in March 2005 introduced to simplify the national doubled in the last six months. The same when Romania started dual-currency display currency, and also as a symbol of rate of growth as also been seen in Asia, the and all prices had to be displayed in both the Romania's increasing economic stability. It second-worst affected area. old leu and the new leu. Starting from today, is also expected to help pave the way for the first notes and coins of the new leu will the adoption of the euro by Romania, The WHO's report highlights that the best become legal tender, and the new leu will which is expected in 2012-2014, after progress has been made when governments become the official currency of Romania. Romania joins the European Union in have worked together with the WHO, the 2007. UN and other parterners. The report goes on The redenomination (or conversion from the to make recommendations for simplifying old to the new leu) is simple — 10,000 old Although the introduction of the new leu is the process to enable treatment levels to be lei are replaced by 1 new leu. One US dollar viewed as beneficial on the whole, since it increased even faster. will buy 2.98 new lei, while one euro will will bring Romania's currency more in line buy 3.6 new lei. The old leu had been the with the value of important global The UN's target was based on what was world's least valued currency unit, with the currencies such as the euro and the US hypothetically possible if all possible steps US dollar buying 29,891 lei and the euro dollar, concerns have been raised that the to provide treatment were taken. The report buying 36,050 lei (on 30 June 2005). With new leu will fuel inflation. Some people are shows the while financial, political and the introduction of the new leu, Romania's concerned that the new leu will result in the technical steps have been made, other areas currency will be among the most highly- rounding-up of prices, similar to what are falling short. valued in the region. happened when the euro was introduced in the Eurozone in 2002, and therefore fuel Pressure groups said that countries were The new leu notes and coins, introduced inflation. reacting too slowly to the pandemic and into circulation today, will circulate called on the G8 to provide more sustainable alongside the old lei until 31 December However, a rise in prices is not thought to funding for universal treatment for Aids. 2006, when the dual-currency period ends occur due to the dual-currency display. and all of the old lei are expected to be This ensures that all businesses continue to UK international development minister withdrawn. However, old lei can be display prices in both the new leu and the Gareth Thompson said: "We are committed exchanged at banks indefinitely. old leu until the end of 2006, and hence to universal access to HIV treatments by they will not be able to raise prices as 2010. We will spend £1.5bn in the next The new notes come into denominations of easily, for fear of becoming less three years on Aids, including £150m on 1, 5, 10, 50, 100 and 500 new lei. The competitive in the market. orphans." largest note of the old leu was 1,000,000 lei, or 100 new lei. The largest note of the new UN/WHO making progress in treating Proposal made to seize home of US leu is worth 500 new lei, or approximately HIV/AIDS, but will miss 2005 target Supreme Court justice Souter, after US$167 and €139. New leu notes will also eminent domain ruling have the same dimensions as euro notes of The World Health Organisation has similar value. Additionally, they will use the announced that the number of people In the wake of a United States Supreme same colours and design as their receiving anti-retroviral treatments (ART) Court ruling in Kelo v. New London on corresponding old leu equivalent (for in developing countries is increasing eminent domain last week, a California man example, the 100 lei note will look similar significantly - more than doubling between has proposed that Justice David Souter's to the 1,000,000 old lei note). December 2003 and June 2005. One New Hampshire home be seized by the state million people are now getting the drugs and a hotel be built on the site. Logan All notes will be printed on polymer they need, compared to just 400,000 Darrow Clements faxed a letter to town materials. Romania was the first country in eighteen months ago. officials in Weare, New Hampshire June 28, Europe to introduce polymer notes, in 1999. 2005 that justified the action as such: The governor of the National Bank of However, access to treatment is not Romania, Mugur Isărescu, said that the growing as fast as demand, and the UN is "The justification for such an eminent redenomination of the leu marks the unlikely to reach its target of treating three domain action is that our hotel will better symbolic end of Romania's economic million people by the end of 2005 - just serve the public interest as it will bring in transition from a planned economy under over half the people who need it. The economic development and higher tax Communism, which was overthrown in longer-term target of universal treatment by revenue to Weare." 1989, to a free market economy. 2010 is still likely to be met.

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Justice Souter, who was in the majority marriage saying 62 percent of Spaniards addition to the United States. ruling in the Kelo case, has lived at the support the government's action on gay farmhouse in Weare since he was 11 years marriage, and 30 percent oppose it. Messages in response posted on a old. Clements indicated that it was communications page for warez users read: necessary to build on that location because According to an Associated Press story, RiSCISO, Myth, TDA, LND, Goodfellaz, "it is a unique site being the home of Beatriz Gimeno, a longtime leader of the Hoodlum, Vengeance, Centropy, Wasted someone largely responsible for destroying gay rights movement in Spain, held back Time, Paranoid, Corrupt, Gamerz, property rights for all Americans." The tears as she hugged her partner Boti after AdmitONE, Hellbound, KGS, BBX, KHG, action has given rise to a great deal of the vote. NOX, NFR, CDZ, TUN, and BHP were all support nationwide, as many are writing to hit, and were all hit hard. the councilors of the small town of Weare to "It is a historic day for the world's EdN not pre'ing for awhile, investigations voice their approval for the proposal. homosexuals. We have been fighting for still going on! many years," Gimeno said. "Now comes The proposal for the "Lost Liberty Hotel", the hardest part, which is changing society's An email lists people targeted, updated in as it is to be called, features a number of mentality." Mountain Time (UTC-7) at 6:31pm, components which seem to focus on the 6:36pm, 6:38pm. The last update is at libertarian leanings of its designer. A dining Gay couples can get married as soon as the 6:41pm. room, called the "Just Desserts Cafe" and a law is published in the official government museum based on the "loss of freedom in registry as early as Friday or within two The FBI began the sting in 2003, offering America" are two such components. Instead weeks at the latest, parliament's press office hosting for software cracks and movies. As of a Gideon's Bible (a standard item placed said. the covert site infiltrated the underground in most American hotel rooms), each guest warez and piracy community, it was will receive a free copy of Ayn Rand's novel Rail tunnel collapses at Gerrards Cross, repeatedly expanded to provide storage for Atlas Shrugged. UK an increasingly large collection of pirated material. Eventually it held some 27 Spain legalizes same-sex marriage A section of the rail tunnel outside terabytes of copyrighted files, including 188 Gerrards Cross Station in Buckinghamshire copyrighted softwares valued at more than Spain, a predominantly Catholic country, collapsed at around 8 p.m. last night. No- US$300,000. became the third nation Thursday to legalize one was injured. 20 metres of concrete same-sex marriage following The tunnel and gravel collapsed onto the In the U.S.A. William Venya, 34, of Netherlands and Belgium. Canada, whose Chiltern to Marylebone line, closing the Chatworth, Calif., Chirayu Patel, 23, of lower house has voted in favor of same-sex railway and causing much disruption. Fremont, Calif., Nate Lovell, 22, of Boulder, marriage, is widely expected to have that Colo., and David Fish, 24, of Watertown, Bill pass also in the upper house, making The tunnel was created by the supermarket Conn were all arrested on criminal Canada the fourth country to legalize same- chain Tesco, who had filled in a railway complaints of copyright infringement and sex marriage. cutting in order to build a supermarket conspiracy to commit copyright above it. The project was unpopular both infringement. By a vote of 187-147 with four abstentions, among the local community and the rail the 350-seat Congress of Deputies approved industry who felt the project put USA lifts remaining sanctions on Serbia the measure to give same-sex couples the commercial gain before railway safety. and Montenegro same rights as heterosexual ones, including the right to adopt children and inherit each The accident came hours after another rail U.S. President George W. Bush suspended others' property. The bill, which became law accident in East Yorkshire, where a train all sanctions on Serbia and Montenegro by a immediately, says: "Matrimony shall have collided with a car at a level crossing, decree yesterday. Serbia and Montenegro the same requirements and effects regardless killing the driver of the car and injuring was under various degrees of economic and of whether the persons involved are of the five train passengers. other sanctions by the United Nations and same or different sex." individual countries since 1992. FBI's covert "Operation Site Down" Catholic leaders and the conservative targets top international warez and Serbia and Montenegro will now enjoy the opposition People's Party lobbied heavily piracy sites U.S. Generalized System of Preferences against the bill "calling it an assault on the which includes allowing duty-free import of institution of marriage and a threat to social The U.S. Department of Justice has more then 4600 products. Economic stability." The Roman Catholic Church announced actions taken in eleven nations relations between two countries were endorsed a June 18 opposition rally in as part of the FBI's covert "Operation Site stabilized in 2003 when Serbia and which about 2 hundreds of thousands Down". The infiltration of so-called Montenegro gained a status of most marched through Madrid including 20 'Topsites' resulted in searches, arrests, and favoured nation. bishops. seizures in Australia, Belgium, Canada, "We did a study and came to a conclusion Denmark, France, Germany, Israel, the that free market exists in Serbia, that there Recent polls suggest Spaniards support gay Netherlands, Portugal and Great Britain in are laws to protect American investors, and

If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit www.wikinews.org Saturday, July 2, 2005 Wikinews Page 6 we based our decision on that," the U.S. government to withdraw it. Rev. Josateki traditional chiefs. ambassador in Belgrade Michael Polt said. Koroi, the former president of the Methodist Church, which claims the Many Fiji citizens have been showing their The President of Serbia and Montenegro, membership of some two-thirds of support for the bill by wearing blue ribbons, Svetozar Marović, wrote a letter to Bush indigenous Fijians, has also expressed or their opposition by wearing yellow ones. thanking him for his move. grave reservations about the bill, saying that reconciliation cannot be legislated and Qoriniasi Bale said two days ago that unless Fiji's War of the Ribbons must begin with true repentance on the part opponents of the bill could make more of the wrongdoer - something he believes constructive suggestions for improving it, A committee of the Fijian Parliament has has not happened. parliament would most likely pass it without been receiving submissions this week on its any changes. controversial legislation aimed at Politicians opposed to the bill include the establishing a Commission with the power leaders of all of the Indo-Fijian dominated Brazil wins Confederations Cup to compensate victims and pardon parties, including former Prime Minister perpetrators of the civilian coup d'état led by Mahendra Chaudhry. Indigenous After 4:1 victory over Argetina, Brazil won George Speight, which deposed the elected politicians to have spoken out against the this year's Confederations Cup yesterday. government of Prime Minister Mahendra bill include Senator Adi Koila Nailatikau The match took place in Frankfurt, Chaudhry in May 2000. (the daughter of former President Ratu Sir Germany, in very bad weather conditions. , who was deposed in the Few pieces of legislation in Fijian history coup) and her brother-in-law, Ratu Epeli In 12th minute Adriano dribbled past some have generated such passionate support and Ganilau, founder of the National Alliance opponents and scored a great goal from over opposition from different quarters. Public Party and son of former President Ratu Sir eighteen meters. Lux had no chance. Four opinion polls show that the great majority of . Ganilau, a former military minutes later Kaká scored the next goal with Indo-Fijians are opposed to the legislation, commander, has called it "an insult to the another powerful long shot from the outer of along with a large minority of indigenous intelligence of ordinary people" and has the penalty area. Fijians. Supporters of the bill, being warned that the armed forces could use it as promoted by Prime Minister Laisenia a legal mechanism to remove a present of After that, the Argentinians seemed as if Qarase and Attorney-General Qoriniasi future governmment, while Nailatikau, who they lost belief in positive outcome, but they Bale, argue that it will bring closure to the was kidnapped and held as a hostage by the were determined to change the situation. wounds of the 2000 coup and allow the insurrectionists, has said that if her father Riquelme, Sorin, Placente and others were country to move on. Opponents say that it is were alive, he would not approve of trying to score a goal, but were unable to do just a legal mechanism for releasing from tampering with the course of justice. get one past the posts. prison supporters of the present government, who were convicted of coup-related One of the most strident voices raised At the begining of the second half, in 46th offenses. For its parliamentary majority, the against the legislation is that of the Military minute, full-back Cicinho, who is currently government relies on its coalition partner, commander, Commodore Frank playing for Santos, made a wonderful pass the Conservative Alliance, several of whose Bainimarama. Bainimarama, who to Ronaldinho, and there was 3:0 on the senior members have been found guilty of organized a counter-coup to quash the scoreboard. Next goal, scored by Adriano, involvement in the coup. Speight rebellion in 2000, has been making came about twenty minutes later, after press statements on almost a daily basis Ronaldinho's pass. Opponents of the bill include Roman since the middle of May, condemning the Catholic Archbishop Petero Mataca, who legislation as undermining the integrity of Argetinians still wanted to change the result. shocked many people last week with his the military and the judiciary. He has made Two minutes after Adriano's goal, Pablo claims that a delegation of church leaders, a number of veiled statements, interpreted Aimar, a substitute, scored, but his team was representing a variety of denominations, had by some politicians as threats, about what unable to win. been misled by Prime Minister Qarase about the military might do if the bill is passed. what the bill contained. At a meeting on Last week, the Fiji Times, Fiji's oldest daily When the match were reaching the end, May 2, Mataca said, the Prime Minister had newspaper, quoted an anonymous source, Brazilian substituters started to dance and be told them about its compensation provisions, which it claimed was reliable, that delighted over the title that they won. but had kept them in the dark about its President Ratu (who is amnesty clauses - which they learned about rumoured to be against the legislation) had Brazil's first matches at the Confederations only later through the media. The clergymen refused a government request to Cup were poor. Their draw with Japan, and had supported the bill at the time, he said, "discipline" Bainimarama. Under the loss to Mexico, made their supporters because they believed in reconciliation and Constitution, the President has very little unhappy. But Carlos Alberto Parreira led the forgiveness. The later revelations about the political power but is Commander-in-Chief team to the top of competitions, which is amnesty provisions had come as a complete of the Armed Forces. considered a preparation for the World Cup. surprise to them, he said. Archbishop Mataca condemned what he said was "a Supporters of the bill include former Prime politically motivated bill" and called on the Minister Sitiveni Rabuka and some

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