WORLD IN BRIEF : NEPAL : Koirala to Head New Government
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
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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