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Bush pressures Sudan to halt war
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WASHINGTON — President Bush yesterday signed a get-tough-on-Sudan resolution meant to prod the government of Africa's largest nation toward ending a 20-year-old war that has killed some 2 million people.
The measure formally condemns human rights violations, alleges the Sudanese government uses food as a weapon and directs the president to impose sanctions against Sudan if he determines its government isn't negotiating in good faith.
Known as the Sudan Peace Act, the resolution carries a variety of possible penalties against Sudan if it negotiates in bad faith. The sanctions could include a downgrade of diplomatic relations, a United Nations arms embargo and attempts to deny the government use of its oil revenues. Bush signed it in the Roosevelt Room, with several lawmakers, former Republican Sen. John Danforth of Missouri, Secretary of State Colin Powell and Sudanese religious and community leaders.
"This act demonstrates the clear resolve of the United States to promote a lasting, just peace; human rights; and freedom from persecution for the people of Sudan," Bush said in a signing statement.
It would authorize $300 million over the next three years for peace efforts — money Congress would have to provide in separate legislation.
"The act is designed to help address the evils inflicted on the people of Sudan by their government — including senseless suffering, use of emergency food relief as a weapon of war, and the practice of slavery," Bush said.
Bush questioned the constitutionality of provisions directing the U.S. government's actions in negotiations, saying the measure "would impermissibly interfere
with the president's exercise of his constitutional authorities to conduct the nation's foreign affairs." He also resisted provisions requiring the administration to report to Congress on American diplomatic activities, "the disclosure of which could impair the foreign relations," Bush said. "The secretary of state will, of course, continue as a matter of comity to keep the Congress appropriately informed of the nation's foreign affairs activities," he added.
The government of Sudan signed an agreement with rebels to suspend fighting during talks to end their 20-year-old war.
Ecuador candidate protests allegations
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GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador — A former army colonel leading in the first round of Ecuador's presidential elections defended himself yesterday against accusations that he is a communist.
Lucio Gutierrez, who probably will face banana magnate Alvaro Noboa in a runoff vote on Nov. 24, said the accusations weren't accurate.
"I'm a military man and as a result I have no ideological formation, no political doctrine," said Gutierrez, 45, in a television
interview. "My only ideology is my country, the Ecuadorean people."
Gutierrez was the surprise of Sunday's elections, surging from fourth place in pre-election polls to take the lead at 20.3 percent, with 62 percent of the votes tallied. Vote counting continued yesterday.
If no candidate receives 50 percent of the vote, the two top votegetters meet in a runoff. The second place candidate, Noboa, had 17.4 percent support.
Noboa set the tone of what may be his campaign for the
runoff when he noted that a communist party was supporting Gutierrez's bid for the presidency.
"I am going to tell the Ecuadorian people that they have two choices: the communism that Lucio Gutierrez represents ... and jobs, health and economic reactivation, which I represent," he said at a news conference in Guayaquil Sunday night.
Gutierrez burst onto Ecuador's turbulent political scene in January 2000 when he led a group of junior army officers and thousands of Indian protesters in a coup that toppled an unpopular president in the midst of Ecuador's worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
He turned over power to his military commanders, who then swore in Jamil Mahuad's vice president as the new president and expelled Gutierrez from the army for his rebellion.
He described himself as belonging to the center-left and said he hoped Ecuadoreans would let him show them what he stands for before judging him unfairly.
Dutch people to elect leaders
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands The Dutch will vote for a new government in January following the collapse last week of a center-right coalition.
The government yesterday announced a Jan. 22 election date after Queen Beatrix met with the outgoing prime minister, Jan Peter Balkenende, the chairmen of the two houses of parliament, and her chief political adviser.
"Under these circumstances, the majority of the parliament saw no other alternative but to hold new elections," Balkenende said after the meeting in The Hague.
The queen opted for new elections despite a plea to her by the party blamed for the government's downfall to try to patch up the rift and reject the Cabinet's resignation.
Balkenende sent his resignation to Beatrix last Wednesday in what he said was frustration over constant bickering in the Pim Fortuyn's List party, or LPF, the second largest of the three partners in the center-right coalition.
The prime minister said the power struggle within the LPF had rendered the coalition unworkable.
Balkenende will remain as head of the transitional government until a new government is installed.
Over the weekend, an LPF leader, Immigration Minister Hilbrand Nawijn, asked the queen to work toward reconciliation within the coalition to avert the need for elections so soon after the last vote held in May.
As a gesture toward the other two parties, Nawijn said the LPF was willing to relinquish one of its four seats in the Cabinet.
The queen, whose state functions are mostly ceremonial, has some leeway under Dutch law.
Her meetings Monday were her first public contacts outside of her family since her husband, Prince Claus, was buried Oct.15.
Last week, two LPF ministers whose feuding triggered the Cabinet crisis quit their posts in an attempt to rescue the government, but Balkenende was undeterred.
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