Word: processing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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During the next four years, we should all contact our local election officials and demand that an accurate voting process be put in place. It might be expensive and would probably include massive voter-education drives and an improved ballot design. But in whatever manner our vote is submitted, it must be accurately counted the first time and not be subject to interpretation. BILL WATT Columbus...
...uncompromising idealism of Nader is cause for admiration. Nader is exercising a right we have in this country to run for public office. Why the negativity? I think he offered a refreshing alternative to Al Gore and George W. Bush, and made the process more interesting. JEFF KLINE Fort Worth, Texas...
...issue in the campaign. Netanyahu has denounced Barak for showing "weakness" in dealing with the Palestinians, and promises instead a return to his peace-through-strength policies. Barak is hoping to remind voters why they deserted Netanyahu in droves 18 months ago - precisely because he'd brought the peace process grinding to a halt. But Israeli voters have little enthusiasm for the peace process right now, even if a majority of them may ultimately accept it as a necessary evil. Early opinion polls suggest that no matter which personalities represent the various parties, the "peace camp...
...campaign, the calculation being that he might conceivably win an election that could be painted as a referendum choice between peace and war. But there's no sign of any agreement on the horizon, and Palestinian public opinion has turned as much, if not more, against the peace process as the Israeli electorate has. Still, for a man who had come to believe that diplomacy and negotiation would win him his cherished Palestinian state, Arafat can't be comfortable contemplating Israel's turn from a prime minister who has offered the Palestinian leader less than he needs to a prime...
...Council, a body created by Pinochet to deal with national crises, in which the military presence is dominant. Still, the council is constitutionally toothless, and Lagos has insisted that he'll hold the meeting only after the high court's ruling, so as to avoid interference in the judicial process. The sad truth for Pinochet may be that the flap sparked by his arrest is nothing approximating a national crisis. Seizing power again is no longer a plausible option for the military in a post-Cold War world, and the indictment of their former leader is simply a product...