Word: reformist
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...Bush Administration already had grievances with Iran, like its export of revolutionary ideology and support for terrorism. Although two-way contacts kept Iran from meddling in the Afghan and Iraq wars, Administration hard-liners successfully rebuffed periodic State Department proposals to reach out to the modestly reformist government of President Mohammed Khatami, under the fundamental axiom that the Bush Administration does not do business with outlaws...
...Democratic Party (MDP), ending a testy relationship with party bosses. Roh, who is now temporarily without political affiliation, is expected to join a new party formed recently by 42 renegade MDP and GNP lawmakers. That group, tentatively called the United New Party for Participatory Citizens, hopes that Roh's reformist credentials will help it win seats in the 273-member legislature during next April's parliamentary elections, possibly enough of them to form a majority coalition to battle GNP conservatives, who currently hold the most seats...
...appointed former Goldman Sachs president John Thornton professor of global leadership, making him the first U.S. businessman to teach at the school since the 1949 revolution. During his 24 years at Goldman, Thornton helped the firm become a force in Europe, Japan and China, where Zhu Rongji, the reformist former Prime Minister and a dean at Tsinghua, was a confidant. Thornton has insisted that he's focused on teaching, but don't expect a globe-trotting rainmaker to spend all his time holding office hours or grading papers. Besides his ties to Goldman, Thornton sits on the boards of Ford...
...Five days later, the new Prime Minister gave an encouraging clue by delivering a speech with a reformist message. He announced a seven point "roadmap for democracy" that envisaged a new constitution and the first national elections since 1990, when the junta overturned a landslide by the National League for Democracy and put the party's leader, Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, under house arrest for six years. Khin Nyunt was vague, however, on such crucial details as when the elections would be held...
...brutal, unchecked crackdown in Aceh is transporting Indonesia back to the dark days of the Suharto dictatorship, exposing the military's reformist claims of recent years as a sham. With the Aceh campaign entering its third week, T.N.I.'s strategy-if that's the word-is shockingly clear. First, saturate the benighted countryside with trigger-happy soldiers and flush out any GAM suspects on a tsunami of civilian blood. Second, frighten into silence anyone who dares to report on the gory consequences, such as the summary execution of eight young men and boys at Peusangan in northern Bireun district...