WORLD IN BRIEF : NEPAL : Koirala to Head New Government
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The Nepali Congress party named Girija Prasad Koirala to lead the first democratically elected government in 32 years in the Himalayan nation. “I feel a sense of responsibility and look toward a future full of challenges,” Koirala, 65, said after party legislators elected him parliamentary leader and prime minister. Koirala is to meet King Birendra, the constitutional monarch, on Sunday.
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