On Thursday evening, Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the majority leader, tried to take up and quickly pass a bill to reauthorize the United States Export-Import Bank, an entity established in the 1930s whose authority to exist was to expire at the end of the month.
By that time, violent confrontations between the Mexican military and the EZLN had abated, but tensions between Zapatista communities and the state and federal authorities continued to exist.
On Wednesday, the 11 new super-councils will take over and the old 26 authorities will cease to exist.
Saeb Erekat, a Palestinian negotiator, explained why: "the Palestinian Authority has ceased to exist".
On that date the coalition provisional authority will cease to exist.
He said that the American-led Coalition Provisional Authority will transfer "full sovereignty" to the Iraqis on June 30, and that the authority "will cease to exist and not be replaced".
"This sweeping authority is said to exist even if the threat presented isn't imminent in any ordinary sense of that word, even if the target has never been charged with a crime or informed of the allegations against him, and even if the target is not located anywhere near an actual battlefield," Mr Jaffer added.
Therapy during school holidays is not repayable, because the authorities believe autism ceases to exist outside term time.
Authorities have allowed such campaigns to exist and promote Belarusian, but in the sensitive political climate, the organisers of language classes and other initiatives have had to tread carefully.
Authorities have allowed such campaigns to exist and promote Belarusian, but the organisers of language classes have had to tread carefully "I could compare present times with the end of the 1980s, when people would go crazy for different cultural events," says Tamara Matskevich, the Deputy Head of the Belarusian School Association.
