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The political descendants of the Solidarity trade union, which set into motion the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the end of the Cold War, are poised to return to power in Poland for the first time in a decade in the political wilderness.
Former communists have held power since the mid-1990s, leading the country into NATO and the European Union.
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GACHUURT, Mongolia - For most of her 53 years, she has lived as a nomadic herder under Mongolia's wide blue skies, raising nine children, surviving snowstorms and drought and hauling the family's white felt tent to a new site each season in search of grass for their sheep.
But never did Tsahiriin Daariimaa think life would be as hard as it is now, on the eve of today's presidential elections.
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Government ousted in Poland
WARSAW, Poland - Exit polls showed voters ousted the nation's scandal-prone government of ex-Communists in parliamentary elections Sunday, giving a broad majority to two center-right parties that have promised tax cuts and clean government.
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Thanks. I'm here to escort William F. Buckley, Jr., to lunch. [Laughter] But first I've got some things I want to say. It's a honor to celebrate the 50th anniversary of National Review and soon to be the 80th birthday of our honoree. You probably think this is a-the Yale Scholars Association meeting. [Laughter] Actually, Bill Buckley did have an influence on me when I followed him at Yale.
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The international media and the West played an important role in the defeat of the Democratic Party (DP) by the Socialist Party (SP) in Albania's June 1997 election. Before the 1997 election, an election was held in May 1996, which resulted in the victory of the DP headed by Pres. Sali Berisha. However, the SP together with the Western press questioned the legitimacy of the 1996 election. As a result, the US pressured the Berisha government to call for another election. The factors that contributed to the ex-communists' victory in the 1997 election are analyzed.
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Though I agree that "[o]nly a morally strong Europe can once again revive its economy and take more responsibility on the international stage," I want to explain why Europe is "constantly blaming the United States for anything that goes wrong in the world." ("A Godless continent?" Op-Ed, June 15).
European socialists and ex-communists want to build up Europe in opposition to the United States and actually turn the European Union into a worldwide Socialist Union.
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