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[听力原文] 6-10
MOSCOW
Russian
lawmakers voted overwhelmingly yesterday to reject the appointment of Viktor
Chernomyrdin as prime minister despite warnings that the country was on the
verge of political and economic collapse.
The Duma, the lower
chamber of parliament, voted after more than three hours of bitter debate not to
confirm Chernomyrdin. Hard-line delegates called for President Boris Yeltsin's
resignation.
Chernomyrdin pleaded before the vote with
lawmakers to approve the formation of a government to tackle the country's
crisis that has seen the collapse of the stock market and the devaluation of the
currency. The acting premier, who needed 226 votes for confirmation, watched
glumly as the Duma voted not to confirm him.
LAGOS
More than 160 bank chiefs jailed
by Nigeria's military regime have gone on hunger strike to protest against their
ongoing detention without trial, reports here said yesterday. Eighty-five jailed
bank chiefs refused food. On Sunday at their detention center in Lagos, said the
privately-owned Post Express and state-owned Daily Times
newspapers.
QUITO
The death
toll from the crash of a Cuban aircraft at Ecuador's Quito airport rose to 80
Sunday as aviation experts searched the wreckage in the hope of pinning down the
cause of the accident.
The Cubana de Aviation plane, a
Russian-made Tupolev, ploughed through airport fences into a nearby field after
it aborted a third attempt to take off on Saturday, witnesses said. It caught
fire and exploded.
The civil aviation department said 80 people
had died by Sunday afternoon. The initial toll of 77 increased when one victim
died in hospital of severe burns and two more bodies were found at the site.
SINGAPORE
Around 47 percent
of 600 firms in six Asia-Pacific countries are uncertain about the advantages of
electronic commerce (E-commerce), according to the results of a survey by Visa
International released here yesterday. Fifty-three percent of merchants believed
conducting transactions via the Internet was suitable for their businesses.
Meanwhile, 73 percent said this would only supplement, but not replace
traditional ways of doing business.
JAKARTA
Indonesian troops threatened to fire rubber bullets yesterday
at hundreds of looters attacking houses owned by ethnic Chinese in the central
Java town of Cilacap. "Piloting has rocked the town in recent days. Violence,
not looting, has abated in the town." A military official said.
"Basically, the situation is getting better. There is no violence today,
but hundreds of jobless people are still continuing to loot a number of ethnic
Chinese fishermen's houses," Colonel M. Noer Muis told reporters.
"We are going to take action against the robbers, with rubber bullets if
necessary. Police detained 27 people in the town in recent days. " Muis said.
6. How many votes are needed in the lower chamber of Russian parliament to
confirm the appointment of the prime minister?