The United States has linked its participation to Yugoslavia's cooperation with The Hague, and officials have said they want to see concrete steps in addition to the decree, namely arrests and transfer of indicted war crimes suspects.
I was reporting in Iraq at the time, as America and its allies geared up for war, and some Iraqis that I spoke to saw an ulterior motive in Saddam's "gift to the Iraqi people," as he termed his mass-liberation decree — namely, a plan to terrorize Iraqis with the prospect of thousands of hardened criminals, who could be mustered as shock troops, on the streets.
One might be tempted to resist Leibniz's argument by saying that even according to the view on which there is an "infinite continuum of good worlds," there is something that can serve as the sufficient reason for existence of this world, namely, God's decree that this world be actual.
In 1814, Francia issued a decree forbidding marriages between "European men" (namely, Spaniards) and women "known as Spanish" (born in Spain or of Spanish descent).
When Naguib began showing signs of independence from Nasser by distancing himself from the RCC's land reform decrees and drawing closer to Egypt's established political forces, namely the Wafd and the Brotherhood, Nasser resolved to depose him.
The RCC succeeded in provoking the beneficiaries of the revolution, namely the workers, peasants, and petty bourgeois, to oppose the decrees, with one million transport workers launching a strike and thousands of peasants entering Cairo in protest in late March.
"In order to strengthen Azerbaijan's independence, to respect its history and cultural development, it is necessary to observe the norms of the Azeri language and namely the Latin script," Mr. Aliyev said in a decree.
A Karzai spokesman, Humayun Hamidzada, said the decree for a spring election was intended to set the record straight and to push others, namely the election commission and other political leaders, to choose a course of action.
