Word: democraticizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jerry Brown's political stock continues to drop toward the point where he may no longer be a viable candidate. Paired against Carter for the Democratic nomination, the California Governor loses badly, 63% to 24%, much worse than his 47%-to-31% standing in August. Only 34% say he...
There was also considerable controversy over the commission's 6-to-6 deadlock on whether to propose a temporary ban on the construction of any new nuclear power plants. Complained Democratic Congressman Edward Markey of Massachusetts: "After offering a truly blistering attack on the U.S. nuclear industry, the Kemeny...
The ideological guru of the Khmer Rouge was Cambodia's former head of state, Khieu Samphan. While a graduate student in France during the 1950s, he argued in a doctoral dissertation that a Communist-run Cambodia should "withdraw from the world economy and restructure the local economy on a self...
The most pressing problem is the mounting outrage over the junta's failure to determine the fate of some 300 dissidents who have "disappeared" during the past three years. Military officers have opposed the junta's plan to create a special commission to investigate the disappearances, evidently out...
A long-term solution seems as elusive as ever. The Thatcher government has proposed an all-party conference in Northern Ireland to consider new initiatives, but the principal Protestant group, the Official Unionist Party, and the predominantly Catholic Social Democratic and Labor Party have both rejected the proposal. British officials...