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Editorialists congratulated the judge and jury for proving (in contrast to the O.J.
After the controversy surrounding his visits to Britain and France, Chinese President Jiang Zemin had a very easy week in Saudi Arabia, where the leading Saudi paper Asharq al-Awsat even congratulated China on its resistance to political reform.
The Times of London's main editorial Monday, headlined "Japan in the Dock," congratulated the other participants in the Group of Seven finance ministers' meeting in London over the weekend on the "acrimonious" dressing-down they gave the Japanese representative.
Black's Israeli newspaper, the Jerusalem Post, congratulated Jordan's ailing King Hussein Monday on the fact that the longevity of his rule--46 years next month--"has been achieved mainly through consensual rule rather than despotism."
Instead it congratulated the couple on the courage and optimism that had enabled them in the end to triumph: "You got home in time to see the film, so it really wasn't such a bad day."