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spotlogo2.jpg (6318 bytes) VOL. 23, NO. 08, AUG 15 -  AUG 21  2003 ( Shrawan 30, 2060 )

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"The agitation in Bhadra month will be the one that will make or break."

Girija Prasad Koirala, former prime minister and president of Nepali Congress, talking to reporters.

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"We are in regular contact with the Maoists over telephone."

Kamal Thapa, minister for Information and Communications, talking to reporters.

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"We were treated just like postmen who deliver letters. Furthermore, sometimes they even posted their letters directly in the press."

Padma Ratna Tuladhar, a talks facilitator, complaining about the way the government and the Maoists treated facilitators, in Kantipur.

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"Maoists are terrorists. The talks will not succeed."

Sher Bahadur Deuba, former prime minister and president of Nepali Congress (Democratic), in Himalaya Times.

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"This government will not live for many days."

Jogmehar Shrestha, leader of Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP), in Deshantar.

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"It was a crime (by then PM Sher Bahadur Deuba) to dissolve the Parliament."

Narayan Man Bijukchhe Rohit, president of Nepal Workers and Peasants Party (NWPP), in Himalaya Times.

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"We were able to force them (hall owners) to meet cent percent of our demands."

Yubaraj Lama, president of Nepal Film Producers' Association, in Spacetime daily.

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"I didn't know that killing rhino was illegal until I had already killed three of them."

Bam Bahadur Praja, a poacher who was recently arrested on charges of killing 17 rhinos, in Gorkhapatra.

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