The head of Egypt's ruling military council, Hussein Tantawi, announced the partial suspension of the emergency law in January.

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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, speaking for President Bush, found it necessary to exert pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for at least a partial suspension of Israeli air strikes.

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And having upset the Obama administration by rejecting its demand for a complete halt to settlement-building, he later announced a unilateral, partial, ten-month suspension.

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The message was that they would be purposefully limited in aim, and that the core of any programme would be a debtor-led partial default - that is, the suspension of interest payments on the remaining debt and a repudiation of the terms of both Troika-brokered bailouts.

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