And they could not understand "why grouping of payments in bands for one, but not the other, presents data-protection or breach-of-confidence issues", as the BBC had insisted.
Mr Ecevit promptly replied that Mr Dervis had promised not to join the new grouping.
The result, it appears: Myanmar will not be admitted to the grouping in 1997.
The People's Alliance of President Chandrika Kumaratunga, whose job was not at stake, remains the largest grouping, though its share of the 225-seat parliament has apparently shrunk slightly.
Moreover, it also helps one to understand where lasting change is likely to originate: not from the occasional activity of a cross-spectrum grouping, but from the sustained, persistent, targeted, and strategic activity of one.
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It forms the backdrop to the annual East Asia Summit, held this year in Thailand from April 10th, grouping the ten South-East Asian countries with not just their partners in China, Japan and South Korea but India, Australia and New Zealand as well.
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To further mix things up, each grouping includes a wide number of wine options, and it is not unusual for the sommelier to offer two different people at the same table having the same dish two different wines.
Not affiliated with any political party, he could be the best compromise candidate if no grouping gains enough votes to install its leader as president.
" These are anti-European and nationalist statements which are not acceptable in the Europe that we live in, " said Hannes Swoboda of the Socialist and Democrats grouping in the European Parliament.
Second, the Mediobanca-Berlusconi plan would involve the possible participation of (not strikingly Italian) Volkswagen, which would (it is said) take a 39% stake in a company grouping premium brands such as Ferrari, Maserati and Alfa Romeo, all now part of the Fiat stable.
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