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The Next Prime Minister
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The August 15 cabinet session at which the budget for 2005 was
voted on and passed by an overwhelming majority of ministers was a
scene of verbal violence. What was really being debated, in a brutal
and confrontational way, was not any particular allocation but the
future leadership of the Likud -- and, given the state of the
opposition, probably of the country as well. Finance Minister
Binyamin Netanyahu accused Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz and Deputy
Prime Minister and Minister of Industry...
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YELTSIN CROSSES PRIME MINISTER WITH APPOINTMENT TO FINANCE POST.(News)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
; ... that I do not want to say anything on this score,'' Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov was quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency. In the previous government of Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov, the top economic official was a Communist. Stepashin dismissed ...
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Yes, Prime Minister
The Jerusalem Report
; ... his executive powers to a prime minister in what is apparently a steady whittling away of the authority of the rais. The bad news is that such "retreats" on Arafat's part don't necessarily signal a loss of authority so much as a change in operating procedures ...
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Martin likely shoo-in as next prime minister; Chretien fights pressure to leave early.(WORLD)
The Washington Times
; Byline: Mark Blanchard, THE WASHINGTON TIMES TORONTO - Former Canadian Finance Minister Paul Martin, an outspoken advocate for mending ties with the United States, has all but been crowned the country's next prime minister. The party has chosen, a glum-faced Deputy Prime Minister John Manley said
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PRIME MINISTER OUSTS FINANCE MINISTER.(News)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
; Byline: P-I news services CANADA -- A power struggle in Canada's governing Liberal Party ... A helicopter crash killed 25 people yesterday including a top general, news reports said. The military helicopter crashed in bad weather 125 miles east ...
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Russia's Deputy Prime Minister Quits Office
Chicago Sun-Times
; MOSCOW Russia's government and economic reforms were sent into turmoil again Friday with the resignation of Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Shokhin, who left in protest of the appointment of a little-known ex-communist as finance minister. Shokhin, 42, an avid free market reformer and advocate of
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