Word: election
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weeks Frye expects Anderson to announce the formation of a 20- to 25-man National Advisory Council which could eventually help a new Anderson administration settle in. "The usual problems of transition will not be acute for us because we will operate sequentially; the same people who might help elect the candidate will continue as the transition staff," Frye explains. "Our disadvantage is that we will start very late...
...near paralysis of government that forced the military's hand. With Demirel unable to muster a majority in parliament and with Ecevit anxious to foil him at every turn, the legislature has not been able to enact a law for at least six months. Its efforts to elect a new President have stretched unsuccessfully-and somewhat comically-over more than 100 ballots. Even a package of antiterrorist measures supported by both men has sunk into the partisan quicksand. Demirel's right-center party could probably win a majority if Turks went to the polls tomorrow, but Ecevit...
...official labor organizations to empty administrative shells. Seeking to avoid that eventuality, newly installed C.R.Z.Z. Chairman Romuald Jankowski called for sweeping reforms aimed at turning the existing bodies into "independent and self-governing organizations for working people." He appealed to workers to remain in the old unions, elect new leaders, and "help us change our policy...
...individual rights is an article allowing the President to arrest individuals without charge and suspend constitutional freedoms at the mere "danger of the perturbation of internal peace." The new constitution seems to offer Chileans the sort of authoritarianism they have had all along. Only in 1997 may they elect their President; until then, the choice will be made for them...
Back home many of his projects were dying of neglect. His parishioners kept praying for his return. Then in 1979 his former see at Kisamos fell vacant. The bishops of Crete, who, with approval of the Patriarchate, elect their fellow bishops, promised that they would reinstate Eirinaios. But last June they chose another man. Two hours later the people seized the episcopal residence in Kisamos and threatened to demolish the building if anyone but Eirinaios tried to take office...