Word: oppositionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Chavez scored an important victory Monday when the Constitutional Assembly, elected in July to draw up a new constitution, effectively dissolved the country?s center-right-controlled parliament. The protests of opposition legislators won?t resonate with the electorate, who are still overwhelmingly behind the 45-year-old former paratrooper...
Republican presidential hopeful GARY BAUER has a secret weapon against his rivals. Many of his supporters have been circulating a daily prayer regimen for a "prayerful pursuit of the presidency." Each invocation is targeted at a special challenge facing a long-shot aspirant, from the banal (travel efficiency) to the...
While it may be too early to accurately predict the political consequences of the devastating natural disaster that hit Turkey last week, the country's leaders are bracing for a firestorm of dissatisfaction. Calls for the resignation of cabinet ministers look set to snowball, and the more efficient relief effort...
Well, look who showed up at the rally after all. "It was a game," says TIME Central Europe reporter Dejan Anastasijevic of opposition leader Vuk Draskovic?s unexpected appearance at a teeming anti-Milosevic rally in Belgrade Thursday night. "He said he wasn?t coming, and then had the word...
"The only thing encouraging about this rally was the turnout," says Anastasijevic. "But as long as the opposition is divided ? and the lack of unity was depressingly evident at the rally ? it will never be able to unseat Milosevic." Draskovic?s main rival, Zoran Djindjic of the Alliance for Change...