Seeking a stopgap, the ruling party on November 24th rushed through parliament a measure to declare the president temporarily, rather than permanently, incapacitated.
There was a ballot measure to declare California's opposition to nuclear weapons, and Brown released a commercial in favor of it, featuring a mushroom cloud and a child telling voters, "I want to go on living".
But it seems too early, by any measure, to declare Iraq a free-travel zone: Foreigners are still being beheaded, and even if there have been relatively few massive car bombs, there were enough to kill two-dozen Iraqis on Wednesday and Thursday.
Meanwhile, Ruslan Aushev, leader of neighbouring Ingushetia, sacked most of his ministers for failing to deal with an influx of 215,000 Chechen refugees.See article: Russia's self-isolationMembers of the ruling party in Croatia rushed through an emergency measure to declare President Franjo Tudjman, who is seriously ill in hospital, temporarily incapacitated.
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Colchester hospital in Essex, which is in special measures and was forced to declare a major incident last month, had been subject to two separate but related inquiries after concerns were raised by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) in November last year.
President Obama planned to make the announcement at the Our Ocean Conference in Washington DC, where more than twenty countries are expected to declare protection measures for 460,000 square miles of ocean.
Quebec's premier, Jean Charest, has said he will ask the courts to declare the measure unconstitutional.
Last week, the administration filed its brief in the Defense of Marriage case, asking the court to declare the measure unconstitutional.
If they can find some way to declare victory, some measure of cover, that may be a way out".
