Word: democraticized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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As Brown arrived at the Concord statehouse, the Democratic members of the house committee stalked out of the hearing to protest. That left Brown with the unhappy choice of testifying, and in the process alienating the state's Democratic leaders, or backing down and look ing foolish. Brown retreated...
Iran is the most telling example. Late last month millions of men and women went to the polls for a referendum in which they voted overwhelmingly in favor of an Islamic republic. The affirmative vote created the nation's first "government of God," declared the Ayatullah Khomeini. The monarchy will...
Islam and Government. Muhammad's teachings are fundamentally democratic, since they proclaim the equality of all men before God. In practice, Islamic nations, like other countries, have both liberals and conservatives, democrats and dictators. The Islamic socialists of Iraq and Libya?not to mention Iranian moderates who want to see...
Turkey. Islam is still a potent force in secular Turkey, and religious violence between the dominant Sunni Muslims and the Alevis, a Shi'ite sect, has recently injected a dangerous new element into the country's chronic political instability. Ancient rivalries between the two groups are being exploited by both...
Italy's President Alessandro Pertini had dissolved parliament while the congress was in session, thereby turning it into a rousing pre-campaign rally. In late spring, Italians will go to the polls to elect a new parliament from which will come the country's 42nd government since the...