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 | | He should be suspended until he allows the African Union to facilitate free and fair elections between him and his opponents." Indeed, the Times notes, the A.U.'s "own observers in Harare said in a statement issued that the vote 'fell short' of the organization's standards. |
 | | In early 2005, anticipation of the approval by European Union member countries of a proposed, organization-wide constitution had swelled; in May of that year, however, French voters rejected the proposed charter, and in June, voters in Holland rejected it, too. |
 | | On that day, foreign ministers from European Union countries met in Slovenia; on their agenda was the sensitive topic of whether or not to boycott the forthcoming Olympics in China, a subject that lately has been bubbling to the surface of policy-makers' lists of things to think about. |
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