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Suu Kyi wins seat, requests
meeting with military
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A COMMON LANGUAGE. Retired soccer player David Beckham kicks the ball around with Nepalese stu-
dents in Bhaktapur, Nepal. Beckham, who was in Nepal filming a documentary for UNICEF, visited the Shree
Padma Higher Secondary School, where classes are held in temporary sheds. He later played soccer with the
children in an open courtyard, cheered on by hundreds of fans. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
David Beckham plays
soccer with Nepalese children
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — David
Beckham played soccer with Nepalese
children and visited a school in Bhaktapur
that was damaged in April’s devastating
earthquake.
Beckham visited the Shree Padma
Higher Secondary School, where classes
are held in temporary sheds after the April
25 earthquake that killed nearly 9,000
people. He spent an hour talking to
students in classrooms made out of a tin
roof and bamboo walls.
The former England captain later
played soccer with the children in an open
courtyard surrounded by old Hindu
temples.
“This is the best day of my life. I am so, so
happy,” said Seline Homija, an eighth-
grade student who played with Beckham
on the brick-paved courtyard.
Hundreds of fans gathered to watch, and
police used batons to control the crowd.
Beckham, who also recently visited
children at a hospital in Papua New
Guinea, was in Nepal for a day filming a
documentary.
Prosecutor says Chinatown crime defendant ordered murder
Peter Keane, a professor at Golden Gate
University School of Law in San Francisco
and a former public defender. “He was
their trophy.”
The investigation also sent a message to
other politicians and Chinatown power
brokers, said Rory Little, a law professor at
the University of California, Hastings and
a former federal prosecutor.
“Even Chinatown can be penetrated by
government investigations, so stay on the
up and up,” he said. “And if you’re a state
senator, don’t assume you’re safe.”
The judge overseeing Chow’s trial,
Charles Breyer, said it could continue into
February.
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Jackson led investigators to Yee, who
acknowledged as part of his plea deal that
he accepted thousands of dollars in
exchange for favors and discussed helping
an undercover FBI agent buy automatic
weapons from the Philippines.
Yee is scheduled to be sentenced in
December and faces a maximum of 20
years in prison. Jackson pleaded guilty to
the same racketeering charge as Yee and is
also scheduled to be sentenced in Decem-
ber.
“The government has gotten what it
wanted to get out of this investigation by
already putting down Leland Yee,” said
become obvious that the military and its
political proxy (the ruling party) were not
actually interested in a democratic
transition that required them to
relinquish their power.”
Suu Kyi was named the victor from
Kawhmu, which is part of Yangon state, in
parliament’s lower house, according to the
Union Election Commission. It said she
won 54,676 votes without giving more
details of how many the losing ruling party
candidate won or how many eligible voters
were in the constituency.
While complete results from the
Sunday, November 8 vote still must be
tallied, the state election commission
announced that Suu Kyi’s National
League for Democracy (NLD) party had
won 37 additional seats — pushing it over
the threshold of 329 seats needed for a
majority in the two-house parliament.
“The NLD’s big victory is best seen as the
first step of a negotiation that is going to
play out in the coming weeks and months
between the elected power of the NLD, and
entrenched, constitutionally guaranteed
military power,” said Phil Robertson,
deputy director of the Asia division of New-
York-based Human Rights Watch.
“So, even with the people behind her,
Aung San Suu Kyi will face problems —
because if she tries to force her way with
the military, it will be like banging her
head against the wall,” Robertson said.
Because the military still controls
important political decisions, said Toe
Kyaw Hlaing, an independent political
analyst in Myanmar, the NLD and other
political parties have to cooperate with the
military.
“But I think the NLD will happily
cooperate with them since one of their
mandates is ‘National Reconciliation,’ he
said. “They are the important group in
parliament that shouldn’t be ignored.
There must be cooperation and the NLD
will have to convince the military to
cooperate with them.”
The military is also invested in the
freed-up economy that semi-democracy
has brought as western nations eased their
NLD VICTORY. A child joins adult supporters of
the National League for Democracy (NLD) party to cel-
ebrate as unofficial election results were posted out-
side NLD headquarters in Yangon. Although barred
from becoming president by a constitutional hurdle
inserted by the junta when it transferred power in
2011 to a quasi-civilian government, opposition leader
Aung San Suu Kyi declared she will be the country’s
de facto leader when her party forms the next govern-
ment. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)
trade and investment sanctions in
response to political liberalization.
With a two-thirds majority of the
parliamentary seats, the NLD would gain
control over the executive posts under
Myanmar’s complicated parliamentary-
presidency system.
The military and the largest parties in
the upper house and the lower house each
nominate a candidate for president. After
January 31, all 664 legislators will cast
ballots and the top vote-getter will become
president, while the other two will become
vice presidents.
Associated Press writers Grant Peck in Yangon and
Jocelyn Gecker in Bangkok contributed to this report.
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