Ill Costa Rica Leader Vows to Finish Term
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Costa Rican President Abel Pacheco pledged Friday to serve out the last 15 months of his term despite health problems, trying to reassure the country a day after he was hospitalized with heart trouble.
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Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, facing mounting calls for her resignation, vowed on Thursday to complete her term in office and not get derailed by a brewing kickbacks scandal.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair said he would go into hospital on Friday to correct recurrent heart palpitations, but he vowed to serve a full third term in office if he wins an election expected next year.
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Communist rule of Cuba should end when ailing leader Fidel Castro dies, President Bush said as he prepared for a Latin American tour this week.
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Former President Carlos Menem was in stable condition Wednesday, a day after collapsing while delivering a speech in central Argentina, authorities said.
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A court in Costa Rica orders former president Rafael Angel Calderon be held ahead of his trial on corruption charges.
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The former president of the Organization of American States was returning to Costa Rica on Friday to answer questions about whether he accepted kickbacks, government officials said.
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Former Argentine President Carlos Menem ended 10 months of self-exile on Wednesday, aiming to stage a political comeback in his home province after assurances he would not be arrested on arrival.
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The judge who indicted Chile's former dictator on rights charges says pleas of dementia will no longer stick.
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, Carlito Pablo. Editor&#39;s Note: Published on page A1 of the Dec. 14, 2004 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer. HIS PASS was good for three hours but former President
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QUITO, Ecuador  - A leftist reformer vowing to sweep away Ecuador's political old guard and a banana tycoon offering jobs for the poor battled on Sunday in a tight vote to elect the country's eighth president in a decade.
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Panama's new President Martin  Torrijos vowed on Wednesday to mend diplomatic ties with Cuba,  ruptured last week when his predecessor pardoned four men  jailed for plotting to kill Cuban President Fidel Castro.
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The Philippines' most influential Roman Catholic leader, Cardinal Jaime Sin, is in stable condition  but remains under intensive care after suffering a heart attack, his church says.
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A UK businessman on a trip to Costa Rica has been stabbed to death in what police say could be a revenge attack.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair says he will go into hospital today to correct recurrent heart palpitations, but he vows to serve a full third term in office if he wins an election expected next year.
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The ailing Cuban president said Tuesday that he will not return to lead the country, retiring as head of state 49 years after he seized power in an armed revolution.
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MALACAÃANG said on Monday that it was holding on to former President Joseph Estrada&#39;s words that he would return to the country and would not use his trip to Hong Kong to escape prosecution.