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Article: Yet more instability for Nepal; King seizes government, vows reform.(WORLD)(BRIEFING: WESTERN ASIA)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
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- February 12, 2005
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Byline: Chitra Tiwari, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Nepal's King Gyanendra added a new dimension to his country's long-running political crisis on Feb. 1 by seizing power and dismissing the eight-month-old government led by Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba.
In a desperate move, he cleared the field for a decisive battle to save the 236-year-old Shah dynasty from a nine-year-long Maoist insurgency. In a 35-minute televised proclamation, the king went on the offensive against what he called mismanagement of the country by Nepal's political parties, held their leaders responsible for bringing instability, declared a state of emergency, ordered the army ...