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...classes and lectures Harvard offers don't give you enough of a kick, there are no less than seven different martial arts clubs on campus that certainly will...
...allies and his detractors, the downfall of the Schmidt government came as no real surprise. His own Social Democratic Party was riven with disagreement over his unyielding support for NATO's defense policy in Western Europe. His curiously low-keyed reaction to the Soviet-backed imposition of martial law in Poland had brought him into conflict with the Reagan Administration as a more fundamental dispute with Washington emerged over differing approaches to the Soviet Union. A burgeoning pacifist and environmental movement, strongly supported by West German youth, found Schmidt a tempting political target, draining support from his own Social...
...years of independence and democracy. With a constititution and political habits shaped from long association with the U.S., the Philippines had experienced vigorous party politics, free elections and five peaceful changes of national administration. Today, after 17 years of Marcos's rule--eight-and-a-half of those under martial law--the democratic institutions of the Philippines have been drastically undermined, perhaps irrevocably...
...same time that Marcos orchestrated the destruction of the Philippines' democratic system, he expanded the power of the Philippines' armed forces. Since Marcos's declaration of martial law in 1972, the regular military forces of the Philippines have more than tripled in size, from 60,000 to at least 200,000. The size of the officers' corps has grown at an even higher rate, and retired military officers have gained numerous positions in the civilian bureaucracy. Cardinal Jaime Sin, the leader of 40 million Filippino Catholics, described the ramifications of this shift of power to the military in a letter...
...decline of democracy and the aggrandizement of the military have led to increasingly frequent and brutal violations of human rights. Although martial law was technically lifted in January 1981, this development has had little real effect on the political situation in the Philippines. All of the emergency powers assumed by Marcos, including the authority to detain preventively "public order" suspects, have been collected into a National Security Code and reinstated by presidential decree...