RIGA - Latvia's Parliament took one delicate step closer to passing a final revision of this summer's controversial language law.By press time Dec. 1, the standing committee on education, science and culture had reached majorities on all but one of the disputed articles of the new legislation. President Vaira Vike-Freiberga returned the law to Parliament after its passage by a majority vote in July. The president complained that some portions of the law were too vague, while others were too restrictive; and for both reasons, she wrote, the law violated both the Latvian constitution and inte...
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