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... that have supported, funded or politically backed global terrorist groups. The list includes ...State Department and congressional leaders have become more explicit in declaring the United ...(11) . Under domestic and international pressure, Musharraf announced that the elections would be h...
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Mideast unrest SYRIA Turkey's prime minister compared Syria's president to Libya's Moammar Gadhafi, as Damascus defies international calls to end the crackdown on a 5-month-old uprising. President Bashar Assad has unleashed tanks, ground troops and snipers in an attempt to retake control in rebellious areas. EGYPT A military tribunal sentenced two young Egyptian activists to six- month prison terms after convicting them of insulting the army. The trial of 19-year-old Hassan Mahmoud and 23-year-old Karim Mahmoud adds more tension to the deteriorating relationship between Egyptian democracy advocates and the ruling military council over freedom of expression. YEMEN Opposition groups and protest leaders form a national council to step up pressure on Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh to...
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... the Constitution protects individuals, not groups, and so bars all racial classifications, except as... to carry us further from the goal of a political system in which race no longer matters--a goal tha... that the 'nation's future depends upon leaders trained through wide exposure' to the ideas and mo... disparate impact cases could put undue pressure on employers to adopt inappropriate prophylactic m...
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..., is that the goals of contemporary political science research and its quantitative modes of ana..., social interaction, organizational leadership, and environmental influences on individual and gr... assumed the leakage was designed to pressure the president to add the 40,000 additional troops ... leaders, and lobbyists representing groups that favored the legislation--labor unions, the ph...
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...Political parties and candidates were able to circumvent FEC... on sham issue advocacy by nonparty groups. . Congress enacted many of the committee's prop... calls with the Democratic House leadership and chair of the DCCC, complimentary invitations t... Finance Committee, I experienced the pressure first hand. On several occasions when we were deba...
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... that cause individuals to fall into the groups they do. In short, they explain the sources and th... church--in the perception of its Malagasy leaders--is not supposed be involved in direct political a... criticized the government and exerted pressure for social and economic changes, as in the 1980s. ...
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...By monopolizing religious affairs, the political system has become a regime of religion in which th... with permission to issue fatwas, mosque leaders, seminarians with a clerical certificate issued by..., the clergy gained power and leverage to pressure the government to accommodate its agenda. Converse... Ayatollah Khomeini allowed some political groups opposed to Mohammad Reza Shah to use religious tax...
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... graduates--have an opportunity to be leaders on Women's Day. My mother. Pearl Walker McNeil, wh..., charity, service, pragmatism, political action, abounding hope, and the freedom struggle. ... years of lobbying and placing political pressure on Georgia legislators, did they appropriate the f... Little" movement included a wide array of groups and individuals from a variety of ideological pers...
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...(2) He urged American leaders not to be reticent about using that power "to lead... would only rely on airpower, despite pressure to deploy ground forces from his NATO commander, G... claimed that it was relatively easy for groups like al-Qaeda to infiltrate and strike the homelan... way it would happen is if there were political chaos in a nuclear-armed state, and terrorists or ...
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When Evo Morales, former coca grower and leader of the coca-growers' union, was elected president of Bolivia in 2005, many observers of Bolivian politics anticipated that Bolivia would rapidly cease cooperation with the United States in the "War on Drugs." Such a change, however, has not been apparent. What explains Bolivia's continued cooperation? I argue here that US-Bolivian trade policy, which enables the US to use trade preferences as a carrot to promote Bolivian drug policy, may best explain this apparently anomalous behavior, suggesting that trade may be an effective tool in promoting non-economic foreign policy goals.
... in Bolivia that they led to the political rise of Evo Morales, who entered the political sph... by a coca-grower constituency (among other groups). The contrast is great, when Bolivia is compared ... by back-room dealing with other party leaders (most recent presidents have been elected with aro...