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Barbara Crossette (NYT) THE AMERICAS VENEZUELA: BROAD POWERS FOR CHAVEZ -- The National Assembly approved sweeping powers for President Hugo Chavez that will allow him to pass legislation by decree in areas from economic and financial affairs to government reform.

The police now have extraordinarily broad powers for regulating behaviour in public space.

His approval is a congressional endorsement of uneconomic lending.Mr Cordray's appointment unlocks broad powers for the newly established CFPB, including the ability to investigate and regulate the price and scope of financial products under a new and undefined "abusive" standard.

Sweeney suggested asterisks for those who are nailed, but if yesterday's report is true, if Bonds and the others did receive what is alleged, mustn't the commissioner contemplate using his broad powers for suspensions?

The generals appeared to want to "upgrade Mubarak's authoritarianism by adding free and fair elections," while preserving broad powers for themselves over matters including defense, national security and perhaps some broad economic issues, said Mona el-Ghobashy, an Egyptian political scientist at Barnard, who is now in Cairo.

It said the the bill "grants overly broad powers for very intrusive surveillance on the basis of vast and badly defined objectives" and called on France to "guarantee that any interference in private life must conform to principles of legality, proportionality and necessity".

First, he called for broader powers for district attorneys to release information from grand-jury proceedings.

It produced conciliatory statements from the White House, which suggested that Mr. Bush was open to negotiation with Congress over far broader powers for the new position.

But the bill also grants broader powers for customs and immigration officers to harvest information using "authorised systems" to collect personal data, and potentially share it with foreign and domestic government agencies.

It includes a 9 p.m.-to-5 a.m. curfew in major cities and towns and broader powers for the police to make searches and issue arrests, with 5,000 members of the military assisting them.

It reiterated Moscow's demands for the creation of a federal Ukraine with broader powers for provinces.