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IN THE NEWS - New Iraqi Government Faces Increase in Violence
By Jill Moss 1


Broadcast: Saturday, May 07, 2005


A democratically elected government was sworn into office Tuesday in Iraq. The new prime minister, Ibrahim al-Jaafari, was sworn in first. He placed his hand on a Koran and promised to protect the independence of Iraq. The ceremony took place at a building inside the Green Zone. That area of Baghdad is heavily guarded by American troops.


Violence has increased since Mister Jaafari announced his government on April twenty-eighth. Among the attacks Friday, a bomber 2 set off a car full of explosives next to a small police bus in Tikrit, the hometown of Saddam Hussein.


 
 
There was also a deadly bombing at a market in the town of Suwayrah, south of Baghdad. And police recovered at least twelve bodies that were buried at a waste center at the northeastern edge of the capital.


Also Friday, Al-Jazeera television said kidnappers 3 are demanding that Australia begin to remove its troops from Iraq within seventy-two hours. The Arab television station showed an Australian hostage being held at gunpoint. Al-Jazeera also reported the kidnapping of six Jordanian workers in Iraq.


The new Iraqi cabinet has thirty-seven members. Those sworn-in Tuesday included sixteen Shiite Arabs and nine Kurds. They also included four Sunnis and one Christian 4. Mister Jaafari still had seven members to name, including leaders for the oil and defense 5 ministries 6.


The prime minister, a Shiite, said he wanted to fill the defense position with a Sunni Arab in an effort to reach out to that minority group. Sunni Muslims ruled Iraq under Saddam Hussein. They boycotted 7 the national elections in January. And they are believed to be leading the resistance movement.


Mister Jafaari blamed the delay in naming the cabinet on disputes among the Sunnis. The top Sunni member in the cabinet, Vice 8 President Ghazi al-Yawer, was among lawmakers who did not attend the Tuesday ceremony.


The new government will lead Iraq while the temporary national assembly writes a constitution. Lawmakers are supposed to finish by the middle of August, and then put the proposed document to a national vote. Approval of the constitution would lead the way to new elections in December.


In other political news this week in the Middle East, women in Kuwait lost a chance to vote in elections on June second. Conservatives in parliament delayed consideration of a proposed election law. The measure would have permitted women to vote in elections for the Kuwaiti municipal council.


Kuwait and Saudi Arabia are the only Arab countries that bar women from elections. Kuwaiti activists 9 say they hope women will be able to vote in elections in two thousand nine.


IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English was written by Jill Moss. I'm Steve Ember.



n.苔,藓,地衣
  • Moss grows on a rock.苔藓生在石头上。
  • He was found asleep on a pillow of leaves and moss.有人看见他枕着树叶和苔藓睡着了。
n.轰炸机,投弹手,投掷炸弹者
  • He flew a bomber during the war.他在战时驾驶轰炸机。
  • Detectives hunting the London bombers will be keen to interview him.追查伦敦爆炸案凶犯的侦探们急于对他进行讯问。
n.拐子,绑匪( kidnapper的名词复数 )
  • They were freed yesterday by their kidnappers unharmed. 他们昨天被绑架者释放了,没有受到伤害。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The kidnappers had threatened to behead all four unless their jailed comrades were released. 帮匪们曾经威胁说如果印度方面不释放他们的同伙,他们就要将这四名人质全部斩首。 来自《简明英汉词典》
adj.基督教徒的;n.基督教徒
  • They always addressed each other by their Christian name.他们总是以教名互相称呼。
  • His mother is a sincere Christian.他母亲是个虔诚的基督教徒。
n.防御,保卫;[pl.]防务工事;辩护,答辩
  • The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
  • The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。
(政府的)部( ministry的名词复数 ); 神职; 牧师职位; 神职任期
  • Local authorities must refer everything to the central ministries. 地方管理机构应请示中央主管部门。
  • The number of Ministries has been pared down by a third. 部委的数量已经减少了1/3。
抵制,拒绝参加( boycott的过去式和过去分词 )
  • Athletes from several countries boycotted the Olympic Games. 有好几国的运动员抵制奥林匹克运动会。
  • The opposition party earlier boycotted the Diet agenda, demanding Miyaji's resignation. 反对党曾杯葛国会议程,要宫路下台。
n.坏事;恶习;[pl.]台钳,老虎钳;adj.副的
  • He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
  • They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。
n.(政治活动的)积极分子,活动家( activist的名词复数 )
  • His research work was attacked by animal rights activists . 他的研究受到了动物权益维护者的抨击。
  • Party activists with lower middle class pedigrees are numerous. 党的激进分子中有很多出身于中产阶级下层。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
40s
abaft
aborted fetus
abruptio placentae
al mintirib
american college test composite
Ankyloproglypha
Antennaria plantaginifolia
antigorites
blusterings
brownout proof
cascade isotope separation plant
chafant
chamber geometry
chromobindins
ciculating
Cleistanthus sumatranus
clew iron
cochliobolus stenospilus
constant-current street-lighting system
copepod crustaceans
corpus callosum agenesis
cotranslations
cotton cord
cretone
creux har.
cross sectional drawing
D up
destination control file
dipleurula
efficient-looking
em tomography
euganean hills
fahlunite
federal-fund
free hand section
fresnel lenus
georgbokiite
graziery
halometer
Harrfs-Ray tests
Helium bubble method
highrankings
Hygrophorus tennesseensis
illote
Joal-Fadiout
joint centre
lacandon
lead formiate
living language
market contract
member by member
monitor filming
moratorium on foreclosures
musiclike
NAITP
non-print
out focus
pad colling system
parados
PASSARIDAE
pedestrian count
phonendoskiascop
plausibility analysis
ploughers
Pluphenazine
portal chamber
potassium sulfocarbolate
Pushto
rabbit-weed
reinvestigation
render a service
Republic of Kazakhstan
residuary legatee
revehent vein
sarcogenous
seafowls
segregation of items
self-deprecation
short pipe
solvent-in-pulp
spark plug fouling
stock issued for property
strange at
switch unlocking
sync pulse regenerator
T slot piston
tetrachlormethiazide
trits
unfavo(u)rable phase
upper face height
vakhtangs
vertical restraint
Villafranca di Verona
vireo
wagite (calamine)
West Glamorgan
wharfless
wood derrick
yarn bombing
yoen
zero phase sequence relay