Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also a supreme irony for a military junta to claim it intends to depoliticize state institutions. Not only will the armed forces play a direct political role but they will work, as in the past, through the civil bureaucracy, picking and choosing their civilian allies and in the process undermining institutional norms and procedures. In its first few weeks in power, the Musharraf regime has already appointed and dismissed a number of key bureaucrats and political expediency will continue to dictate its interaction with the civil administration...
...liberals' disappointment with the Clinton administration. And he's pressed home his appeal to the left with big, liberal-friendly policy initiatives in an era of incremental shuffling. He wants to spend $65 billion on health care for all, $10 billion on combating child poverty, and extend full civil rights to gays. "Gore's presenting him as a dangerous liberal whose policies will destroy the village in order to save it," says Tumulty. "But if he's too aggressive tonight, he risks alienating many undecided liberals." Despite the ideological posturing, both candidates are cut from the same New Democrat cloth...
...conference's theme was "Origins and Aspirations: The Past, Present and Future of Chicano Civil Rights and Political Activism...
BORN Jan. 15, 1929 1957 Founds Southern Christian Leadership Conference, leads nonviolent fight against racism 1963 Organizes March on Washington to support proposed civil rights legislation 1968 Assassinated in Memphis, Tenn...
...Tanzania's first President; of leukemia; in London. Nyerere led his country to independence from British rule in 1961, united 120 ethnic groups into one country, and was its leader for 23 years. He continued until his death to try to unite Africa--most recently by mediating in a civil war in Burundi...