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...slow-write a new constitution, have a referendum on that constitution and then hold general elections. Colin Powell has set a six-month target for the constitution, but nobody believes it can be done that quickly. Political reality may dictate that this second option will be scrapped in favor of the first: a quick and dirty transfer of power to the Governing Council next spring...
...only to be ousted by another coup a year later. In 1988, retired from the military, Ríos Montt formed the frg as a foe of Guatemala's rigid and venal oligarchy - shrewdly casting himself as the kind of populist caudillo (strongman) that Latin voters still tend to favor. The Maya Indians' traditional quiet stoicism about past trauma has made it easier for Ríos Montt to sell his quasi-delusional version of the local paramilitary squads he helped form, which terrorized the countryside until the civil war ended in 1996. "I did nothing that can be considered...
Amato, a former professor and an influential Italian political figure, emphasized that many nations, not just the independent-minded U.K., are reluctant to sacrifice their power in favor of the supranational body...
...examined the works they cite.” I followed this preferred form, and Finkelstein and Cockburn know that. Why, then, have they attacked me? The answer lies in their documented history of leveling similar attacks on the integrity of many other writers who are either pro-Israel or favor justice for Holocaust survivors...
Flynt attained national notoriety with his 1988 Supreme Court triumph over Rev. Jerry Falwell, a social conservative who sued Hustler for publishing a cartoon suggesting that he had sex with his mother in an outhouse. The Court found in Flynt’s favor, establishing a precedent protecting obvious satire of a public figure even if it causes emotional distress. Eight years later, Flynt was immortalized by Woody Harrelson in the sympathetic Roman Polanski film, The People vs. Larry Flynt...