US Election

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With the stalemate in the U.S presidential ballot likely to carry the

election into its third year and as the Democrats and Republicans crank up

their legal teams to decide who will get 4000 plush Washington jobs News of

THe World reports on the international response .

 

Florida election officials are unlikely to take up Fidel Castro's offer to

provide neutral obsevers even though many residents of the state were born

in Cuba .There is no precedent said a spokesperson and also no president

offered Fidel .

 

UN Secretary General Koffi Annam is preparing an interim administration to

run the country ."It is not unusual for nations to have difficulties making

the transition to democracy" said Kofi "and this year we have already

provided teams for Burkina Faso,Upper Volta ,East Timor and the Ivory Coast"

However Kofi was rebuffed on his suggestion that UNICEF could provide

educational services to American voters .The head of UNICEF stated that

although lack of voter education has contributed to the current problem

there are nearly 200 million eligible voters in the U.S and it would take

nearly 2 years budget to reach them all .By that time they would again be

having a full congress election . This disappointed the Republicans who

repeated Bush's statement on the campaign trail "the question on education

is is our children learning ."

 

A spokesperson for the Organisation for African Unity stated that in many

of our member nations the chief has to prove his potency by marrying 200

wives . It is clear then there is no replacement for Bill Clinton he added.

 

While the Democrats ask Bush to make good his campaign slogan to be a Uniter

rather than a Divider by standing aside an unusual suugestion that since

Gore won the North and Bush the South that the country be divided is

unlikely to be adopted ."This was tried before and it didn't work" said a

spokesperson for Bush.