Word: democratization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Christian Democrat leader Ricardo AriasCalderon said the confrontation was the result ofother clashes between Panama and the United Statesin recent months
...Until last week it seemed nothing short of a miracle would enable a Democrat to win a state senate seat from San Diego's heavily Republican 39th District. But that was before Roman Catholic Bishop Leo Maher ordered that Democratic candidate Lucy Killea, 67, be refused Communion because of her pro-choice views on abortion. Though Maher declared that his action was "more pastoral than political," it quickly became the most important issue in the campaign. Riled by the bishop's intervention, voters gave Killea a 51%-to-49% upset victory over state legislator Carol Bentley in a special election...
...completely legal, or dubious at worst, the systems set up for their convenience can be perversely efficient at helping drug barons launder as much as $100 billion a year in U.S. proceeds. "It is hard to understand why we failed for so long to institute adequate controls," says Massachusetts Democrat John Kerry, chairman of the Senate's Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and International Operations. The state of regulation is "so lackadaisical," says Kerry, "it's almost damnable...
...announcement was made on national television by the new interim head of state, Manfred Gerlach, the leader of the non-Communist Liberal Democrat Party. He said he will serve until Parliament elects a permanent head of state...
Like Ronald Reagan, who managed to preside in relative secrecy over $90 billion in "revenue enhancements" after the well-publicized (and disastrous) 1981 tax cuts, Bush has some bipartisan support for his antitax posture. Democrat James Sasser of Tennessee, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, insisted last week, "What we've done here does not waddle enough to be called ducks." Perhaps. But since the nearly $6 billion in revenue enhancements enacted last week will rise to $30 billion over the next five years, taxpayers may be forgiven if they exercise their right to squawk...