Los Angeles Times

MEXICO CITY — Mexican President-elect Enrique Peña Nieto’s party has fallen short of an absolute majority in Congress, election offi cials said Tuesday, complicating his ability to push through reforms and possibly forcing him to negotiate with opposition politicians.

The Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, and its tiny ally, the Green Party, will have 240 seats in a 500-member lower house of Congress, the Federal Electoral Institute said, based on the fi nal vote count. The alliance will have 61 seats in the 128-member Senate.

Although these represent the fi nal vote count, an election tribunal will have to confi rm the confi guration. Mexico’s complicated system of proportional represen-tation for a handful of positions could alter the fi nal breakdown, but only slightly.

The lack of majority refl ects the smaller-than-expected PRI margin of victory over the second-place fi nisher, leftist leader Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, as the party staged a comeback to presidential power after a 12-year absence.

The electoral process grinds on slowly here, nine days after the July 1 vote. Lopez Obrador has still not recognized the results and is planning a series of legal challenges based on widespread reports of vote-buying, overspending and other possibly illegal irregularities.

PEÑA’S PARTYCAN’T REACHFULL MAJORITY

The Associated Press

VIENTIANE, Laos — Hillary Rodham Clinton became the fi rst U.S. secretary of state to visit Laos in more than fi ve decades, gauging whether a place the United States pummeled with bombs during the Vietnam War could evolve into a new foothold of American infl uence in Asia.

Clinton met with the communist government’s prime minister and foreign minister in the capital of Vientiane today, part of a weeklong diplomatic tour of Southeast Asia. The goal is to bolster America’s standing in some of the fastest growing markets of the world, and counter China’s expanding economic, diplomatic and military dominance of the region.

Thirty-seven years since the end of America’s long war in Indochina, Laos is the latest test case of the Obama admin-istration’s eff orts to “pivot” U.S. foreign policy away from the long wars in Afghan-istan and Iraq. It follows a long period of estrangement between Washington and a once hostile Cold War-era foe, and comes as U.S. relations warm with countries such as Myanmar and Vietnam.

In her meetings, Clinton

discussed environmental concerns over a proposed dam on the Mekong River, investment opportunities and joint eff orts to clean up the tens of millions of unexploded bombs the U.S. dropped on Laos during the Vietnam War. Greater American support programs in these fi elds will be included in a multimillion-dollar initiative for Southeast Asia to be announced later this week.

After the meetings, she said they “traced the arc of our relationship from address-

ing the tragic legacies of the past to fi nding a way to being partners of the future.”

Clinton also visited a Buddhist temple and a U.S.-funded prosthetic center for victims of American munitions.

At the prosthetic center, she met a man named Phongsa-vath Souliyalat, who told her how he had lost both his hands and his eyesight from a cluster bomb on his 16th birthday.

“We have to do more,” Clinton told him. “That’s one of the reasons I wanted to come here today, so that we

can tell more people about the work that we should be doing together.”

The last U.S. secretary of state to visit Laos was John

Foster Dulles in 1955. His plane landed after being forced to circle overhead while a water buff alo was cleared from the tarmac.

At that time, the mountain-ous, sparsely populated nation was at the center of U.S. foreign policy. On leaving offi ce, President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned his successor, John F. Kennedy, that if Laos fell to the commu-nists, all Southeast Asia could be lost as well.

While Vietnam ended up the focal point of America’s “domino theory” foreign policy, Laos was drawn deeply into the confl ict as the U.S. funded its anti-communist forces and bombed North Vietnamese supply lines and bases.

The U.S. dropped more than 2 million tons of bombs on the impoverished country during its “secret war” between 1964 and 1973 — about a ton of ordnance for each Laotian man, woman and child. That exceeded the amount dropped on Germany and Japan togeth-er in World War II.

Clinton makes history with visit to Laos

The Associated Press

LONDON — Investigators were conducting further tests today in a bid to shed light on the death of Eva Rausing, one of Britain’s richest women, whose body was found in her west London home.

Her husband, Hans Kristian Rausing, has been arrested in connection to suspected drug crimes and police want to question him about the circumstances of his wife’s death. He is currently receiving medical treatment in a London hospital. Police

have not indicated that Eva Rausing’s death was a result of foul play or that a crime was committed.

U.S.-born Eva Rausing, 48, and her husband were wealthy philanthropists who have both waged a long battle against drug addiction. They were arrested on drug charges in 2008 after Eva Rausing was caught trying to smuggle crack cocaine and heroin into the U.S. Embassy in London in her handbag.

Hans Kristian Rausing, 49, is an heir to the Tetra Pak fortune his father built as a

globally successful manufac-turer of laminated cardboard drink containers.

Police found Eva Rausing dead at her multimillio-dollar London home on Monday. Initial post-mortem exami-nations Tuesday failed to establish a formal cause of her death.

The Metropolitan Police said offi cers arrested a 49-year-old man Monday in connection with the case. Police did not release the man’s name but off ered details of the arrest in response to a question about

Hans Kristian Rausing.They said they arrested

the man on suspicion of drug possession, and that a subse-quent search of an address in

London’s upmarket Belgravia neighborhood related to that arrest led to the discovery of Eva Rausing’s body later that day.

British authorities trying to set outfacts of U.S.-born billionaire’s death

AP fi le photo

The late Eva Rausing and her husband, Hans Kristian Rausing, at Winfi eld House, London, in 1996.

AP photo

The Ho Phra Keo Temple in Vientiane was on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s itinerary today.

First State visitin half a century

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