Word: governments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Democratic version: Californians are losing an exhilarating, compassionate leader, a pioneer in appointing women, blacks, Hispanics and Asians to help govern the nation's most populous state. They are getting, instead, a humdrum politician, one determined to protect the rich and turn back the clock on progress in civil rights and the environment...
...Greens receded to 6.8%, from 7.7%. Since the Social Democrats did not get a working majority in the June election, Mayor Klaus von Dohnanyi tried forming a coalition with the Greens to run Hamburg. The attempt failed, and because the Social Democrats did not have the majority required to govern on their own, new elections were required...
During Rhodesia's long, bloody civil war, Prime Minister Ian Smith was a staunch defender of a white Rhodesia and imposed draconian measures against black opponents. Now that Rhodesia has become Zimbabwe and blacks govern in the capital of Harare, once Salisbury, Smith, 63, has had reason to ponder some of his past actions: the same emergency powers that he invoked to defend white minority rule are being used against...
Mexico's new chief executive also pledged to move forcefully against the public graft and featherbedding that had flourished under Lopez Portillo. Said De la Madrid: "Mexicans are a deeply moral people and they demand that I pursue all forms of corruption. I will govern by example...
...reason or another, Latin American leaders do not naturally agree with Reagan about whether or not Soviet-style Marxism presents a danger to stability in the region. Perhaps they would rather be left to govern the continent without American supervision. Whatever the source of disagreement. Reagan should realize that pressuring debt-ridden allies to denounce socialism will not make more people genuinely believe that the Soviets have assigned proxies to undermine order and stability in Latin America...