Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...real loser was the centrist Christian Democratic Party of incumbent President Jose Napoleon Duarte, who is terminally ill with cancer. Having lost control of the legislature to ARENA a year ago, the Christian Democrats will hand over the chief executive's office on June...
...Connor, once active in the Arizona G.O.P., wrote the letter last year to Apache Junction Republican Annetta Conant. At Conant's request, the Justice cited three court opinions that, according to O'Connor, were "to the effect that this is a Christian nation...
Legal scholars pointed out that two of the opinions O'Connor cited actually do not promote the concept of a Christian nation. The embarrassed Justice said she regretted that her letter had been "used in a political debate." It was a weak excuse. Conant had stated that a letter from O'Connor would be "beneficial" since "Republicans are making some interesting advances in this heavily controlled Democratic area...
...RELIGION: A feast of Christian art from Africa...
Those gains came at the expense of the center-right coalition of the Christian Democratic Union and the Free Democratic Party, which has held national power for the past six years. The Christian Democrats now control the mayor's office in only one of West Germany's major cities, Stuttgart. And in both West Berlin and Frankfurt, the Free Democrats failed to receive the 5% of the vote needed to gain representation in the local councils, a disturbing omen for a small swing party that seldom polls more than 10% anywhere...