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December 14, 2002 | ADNAN MALIK, Associated Press Writer | Copyright

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Dateline: MANAMA, Bahrain In a colorful ceremony, the king inaugurated Bahrain's first parliament in nearly 30 years Saturday.

"You in the two chambers," the king, Sheik Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, told the 80 members of the lower and upper houses, "represent the pioneers of this historic revival of the national assembly, through which the practices of the democratic process in the kingdom are established."

The 40 members of the lower house, the Chamber of Deputies, were elected in October, the first legislative elections that Bahrain had seen since in 1973. That parliament was dissolved two years later. The members of the new upper house, …

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