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 Angola Government Information
The executive branch of the government is composed of the president (head of state and government), the prime minister, and the Council of Ministers.
Angola is governed by a president who is assisted by a prime minister and 30 cabinet ministers, all appointed by the president.
The government is based on ordinances, decrees, and decisions issued by a president and his ministers or through legislation produced by the National Assembly and approved by the president.
http://www.traveldocs.com/ao/govern.htm   (574 words)

  
 History of Grenada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
After obtaining independence, Grenada adopted a modified Westminster parliamentary system based on the British model with a governor general appointed by and representing the British monarch (head of state) and a prime minister who is both leader of the majority party and the head of government.
An advisory council named by the governor general administered the country until general elections were held in December 1984.
In October 1983, a power struggle within the government resulted in the arrest of Bishop at the order of his Deputy Prime Minister, Bernard Coard.
http://www.newlenox.us/project/wikipedia/index.php/History_of_Grenada   (1075 words)

  
 Invasion of Grenada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Invasion was opposed by the British government, as Grenada was part of the Commonwealth of Nations, and Queen Elizabeth was head of state as Queen of Grenada.
By mid-December, the American troops withdrew after a new government was appointed by the governor-general.
Soon after, a faction led by the strongly pro-Soviet Deputy Prime Minister Bernard Coard seized power;Coard's forces subsequently executed Bishop in spite of mass protests in Bishop's favor.
http://lexington-fayette.us/project/wikipedia/index.php/Operation_Urgent_Fury   (859 words)

  
 Communist state - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia
One controversial doctrine that was popular in the 1980s was the Kirkpatrick doctrine which argued that communist states were inherently "totalitarian" while right-wing dictatorships which the United States supported were "authoritarian".
Whereas the former is a generic term applicable to political systems, style guides tend to restrict the use of latter to circumstances where a state is governed by a formally organized "Communist Party".
On other occasions, having governed as General Secretary, the party leader might assume a state office in addition.
http://encyclopedia.learnthis.info/c/co/communist_state.html   (2646 words)

  
 Cuba (08/05)
Although he had promised a return to constitutional rule and democratic elections along with social reforms, Castro used his control of the military to consolidate his power by repressing all dissent from his decisions, marginalizing other resistance figures, and imprisoning or executing thousands of opponents.
The party monopolizes all government positions, including judicial offices.
In response, the United States imposed an embargo on Cuba in October 1960, and, in response to Castro's provocations, broke diplomatic relations on January 3, 1961.
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/2886.htm   (7561 words)

  
 The U.S. Invasion of Grenada
That latest attempt to install a Marxist-Leninist government within the U.S. sphere of influence so alarmed members of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States, that they appealed to the U.S., Barbados, and Jamaica to intervene.
Coard was tried and sentenced to death, but the sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment.
Bishop's Marxist leanings led to ties with Cuba, Russia, and other left-wing countries.
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h2047.html   (969 words)

  
 A Civics Lesson: John Kerry, Treason, and Free Speech,p10
The three individuals, two nephews and a niece of Father Ly, faced a possible death penalty for engaging in "normalized relations".
"Versailles" was a treaty about the fate of Germany, not a referendum on the colonial government of France.
Father Thadeus Nguyen Van Ly, a Vietnamese Roman Catholic priest received a sentence of 15 years imprisonment and 5 years house arrest for allegedly undermining state unity and violating a previously issued detention order by providing testimony to the United States Government
http://members.cox.net/hwilkerson/web/p10.html   (1098 words)

  
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It notes with great dismay the continuous failure of the Government of Cuba to cooperate with the Special Relator and its refusal to allow him to visit Cuba in order to be able to fulfill his mandate (as they have reiterated in 1996).
The Committee's deep preoccupation about continuous violations of basic rights and freedom of human beings, enumerated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, such as freedom of movement, thought, conscience and religion, opinion and expression, the rights to assemble and associate, and those rights related to the administration of justice.
He stated during a symposium about LATIN-AMERICAN STRATEGY that gathered several representatives of the governments of this Hemisphere, that "THERE PERSIST THE THREATS AGAINST DEMOCRACY IN THIS HEMISPHERE".
http://www.juntapatriotica.org/june96.htm   (12248 words)

  
 African Forum and Network on Debt and Development (AFRODAD) >> Debt Profiles
His overthrow in 1963 ushered in a period of violence before the establishment of a Marxist-Leninist military government in 1968, although strikes and political instability continued to dominate.
The Republic of Congo became independent from France in 1960 with Fulbert Youlou becoming the first president.
The government is reconstructing the country, planning a return to democratic institutions in 2001.
http://www.afrodad.org/debt/congo.htm   (434 words)

  
 Mengistu Haile Mariam Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography
Mengistu Haile Mariam (born 1937) was the head of state of Ethiopia from 1977 to 1991.
On September 10, 1987, Mengistu became a civilian president under a new constitution, and the country was renamed the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
This period, during which the country was ruled by a one-party Marxist-Leninist government, was characterized by systematic repression of all political opposition.
http://popularityguide.com/encyclopedia/Mengistu_Haile_Mariam   (1101 words)

  
 THE MARXIST-LENINIST RESEARCH BUREAU
that I refashioned Petrazhitsky's doctrine concerning intuitive law, in the sense that I put it upon a Marxist foundation, and thereby obtained not intuitive law in general.
The 'commodity exchange' theory of law so dominated the field of Soviet law that it ".
the government official responsible for representing the state in court".
http://website.lineone.net/~ncmlp/html/law.html   (5836 words)

  
 TIME Europe TIME Trail: Zimbabwe
Mugabe became Zimbabwe's first executive President and the larger ZANU-PF went on to win the 1990 elections.
For almost 15 years Smith led settler-ruled Rhodesia in a rebellion against Britain,
Despite the continuing political malaise, ZANU-PF won a fourth general election in 1995 and Mugabe was returned to office as President in 1996.
http://www.time.com/time/europe/timetrails/zimbabwe   (995 words)

  
 Provisional government - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Provisional Government of Lithuania, established when Lithuanians overthrew the Soviet occupation during the Lithuanian 1941 independence.
A provisional government holds power until elections can be held or a permanent government can otherwise be established.
Russian Provisional Government (1917) - established as a result of the February Revolution which overthrew the Tsar.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provisional_government   (395 words)

  
 Table of contents for Oppression and scarcity
The Constitution and Government of the FRG 2.
Denazification and the Judiciary C. The Failure of Allied Joint Governance and the Blockade 2.
Joint Military Government and Its Failure B. Interaction with Germans 2.
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0518/2005025502.html   (370 words)

  
 DR JEANE KIRKPATRICK
For example, in Nicaragua, Carter did this, he provided official diplomatic recognition to the new Sandinista Government, which was a communist government, it was a Marxist-Leninist government.
We were the first country in the world to recognize the Sandinista Government.
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/coldwar/interviews/episode-19/kirkpatrick2.html   (1054 words)

  
 Leninist - encyclopedia article about Leninist.
A Communist state is a controversial term for a state governed by a single political party which declares its allegiance to the principles of Marxism-Leninism.
Although the stated aim of a Communist system is the abolition of the state into a classless society, Marxist-Leninists consider the state necessary in order to establish beforehand.
Trotsky considered himself a Leninist, arguing for the establishment of a vanguard party that defends orthodox marxist theory at the highest level.
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Leninist   (2303 words)

  
 Organization of American States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The current government of Cuba is excluded from participation in the Organization under a decision adopted by the Eighth Meeting of Consultation in Punta del Este, Uruguay, on 31 January 1962.
The experience of World War II convinced hemispheric governments that unilateral action could not ensure the territorial integrity of the American nations in the event of extra-continental aggression.
At the Fourth International Conference of American States (Buenos Aires, 1910), the name of the organization was changed to the "Union of American Republics" and the Bureau became the "Pan American Union".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organization_of_American_States   (1805 words)

  
 MapZones.com : Angola Government
Government composed of administrator branch led by president, who appointed Council of Ministers and Defense and Security Council.
Government: Marxist-Leninist government based on 1975 Constitution but controlled by Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola-Workers' Party.
As of late 1988, because of inability to hold elections, People's Assembly had been appointed.
http://www.mapzones.com/world/africa/angola/governmentindex.php   (207 words)

  
 Hinduism Today Jun 1995
Traditional sentiment was too strong and the constitutional provision that Nepal be a Hindu state was preserved.
Conversion of religion remained banned under the new democratic government.
http://www.hinduism-today.com/archives/1995/6/1995-6-02.shtml   (1566 words)

  
 NAWASA - National Water and Sewage Authority : History :
In 1984 the Crown Agents, acting on behalf of the British Government developed a “ Proposal for a study for St. George’s and St. John’s water supply”.
However this proposal was not official approved by the Government at the time of submission.
In 1995 however, the French Government found a study for the southern St. George’s and St. David’s area.
http://www.spiceisle.com/nawasa/nawasa_history.html   (805 words)

  
 Angola - Chapter 2. The Society and Its Environment
IN LATE 1988, ANGOLAN SOCIETY still bore the scars inflicted by five centuries of colonial rule and by a fourteen-year-long insurgency that had drained the national treasury and frustrated the government's efforts to implement Marxist-Leninist policies.
Many Angolans were Roman Catholics or Protestants, and missionaries had been instrumental in providing education to Angolans during the colonial era when schooling had been largely denied to Africans by the colonial authorities.
Nonetheless, the government was suspicious of large organized groups that could threaten its stability, particularly the Roman Catholic Church, because it had not overtly opposed Portuguese colonialism.
http://www.country-data.com/cgi-bin/query/r-550.html   (879 words)

  
 USAID Mozambique :: The Development Challenge
Mozambique’s independence from Portugal in 1975 was followed by nearly two decades of civil war and a decade of one party Marxist-Leninist government.
The Government of the Republic of Mozambique (GRM) is characterized by a strong executive branch, a parliament dominated by political wrangling between the two main parties, Frelimo and Renamo, and a judiciary that is short on skills, under-staffed, under-funded, and corruptible.
During both the 2003 municipal elections and 2004 national elections, Mozambique demonstrated the capacity to conduct free and fair elections.
http://www.usaid.gov/mz/development_challenge.htm   (949 words)

  
 Congo, Republic of
His opponents were either barred from the country or withdrew from the election.
Congo's second president, Alphonse Massemba-Débat, instituted a Marxist-Leninist government.
Buttressed by military aid from Angola, former Marxist dictator Denis Sassou-Nguesso overthrew President Lissouba.
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0107427.html   (1009 words)

  
 NTI: Country Overviews: Cuba: Profile
Cuba's support for these guerrilla movements, its Marxist-Leninist government, and its alignment with the USSR led to its isolation in the hemisphere.
In September 2002, the Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque announced to the UN General Assembly that his government will accede to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and will ratify the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (Treaty of Tlatelolco).
Cuba does not possess nuclear weapons, and there are no credible reports of Cuban efforts to acquire nuclear weapons.
http://www.nti.org/e_research/profiles/Cuba/3474.html   (450 words)

  
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"They" meant of course our "imperialistic, capitalistic, militaristic government." We may be all of that, though I would hesitate to use those terms, being, as I am, a Catholic peacemaker and pacifist as well as a member of the Fellowship of Reconciliation.
This girl told me that there are four churches open in her city, not a large one-- that at the cathedral of the province there are four Masses and at the other churches three and two a day.
But she feels the pressures of her fellow Catholics who tell her she is cooperating with communism by working for the government.
http://www.catholicworker.org/dorothyday/reprint.cfm?TextID=796   (6284 words)

  
 Governments on the WWW: India
Government of India Tourist Office in New York, United States of America
Government of India Tourist Office in London, Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Government of India Tourist Office in Sydney, Australia
http://www.gksoft.com/govt/en/in.html   (1323 words)

  
 UCI Libraries - Subject: Political Science
Project on Government Secrecy, Federation of American Scientists
From National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, a searchable database arranged by country and region on the following topics: Citizen participation, Civil-military/Security sector reform, Elections, Governance, Political parties, and Women's participation.
Counting California seeks to enhance "access to the growing range of social science and economic data produced by government agencies." Its "single interface enables users access to public use data compiled by federal, state, and local agencies, and also allows users to collate and integrate data by topic, geography, title, and provider."
http://www.lib.uci.edu/online/subject/subpage.php?subject=poli   (1566 words)

  
 Hungary EDUCATION - Flags, Maps, Economy, History, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International ...
In 1948 the new communist government secularized almost all schools and placed them under state control, giving oversight to the Ministry of Education.
The Marxist-Leninist government made major changes in the education system.
In 1946 the government established the principle of free education as a right of all citizens, even before the communist assumption of power.
http://photius.com/countries/hungary/society/hungary_society_education.html   (1260 words)

  
 Afghanistan Country Study
The census was sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development (AID) and was conducted jointly through the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo and The Johns Hopkins University.
The Population Reference Bureau, a respected nonprofit agency in Washington, D.C., estimated the population at 14.7 million people, including refugees, whereas the United States Bureau of the Census used the same figure of 14.7 million but excluded refugees.
An earlier unofficial census was carried out in 1972-74, for which the interviewing occurred during 1972﷓73, in cooperation with the Afghan government.
http://www.gl.iit.edu/govdocs/afghanistan/Population.html   (922 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Angola - Transformation into a Marxist-Leninist Party and Internal Dissent Angolan Information Resource
Although Marxist influences were evident before independence, Marxism-Leninism had not been the MPLA's stated ideology.
Neto made the first public reference to internal dissent on February 6, 1976, when he denounced a demonstration that had protested the termination of a popular radio program that had been critical of the new government and that had demanded rule by workers and peasants.
One of these was the so-called Active Revolt, a faction founded in 1973 that comprised intellectuals of varying political orientation andincluded the MPLA's first president, Mário de Andrade, and other prominent MPLA leaders.
http://reference.allrefer.com/country-guide-study/angola/angola49.html   (486 words)

  
 Court would have been Lifeline for Afghan Women
Afghan women have borne a major burden of rights violations in the country in the last two decades of conflict, which means "there has not been a central government or a central system to monitor the human rights violations which have continued," she said in an interview with Terra Viva.
"The criminals, mainly Soviet soldiers but also Afghan soldiers supporting the Marxist-Leninist government at that time, went unpunished.
In Afghanistan, there has not been a central government or a central system to monitor the human rights violations which have continued," Shorish-Shamley said.
http://www.ips.org/icc/tv230604.htm   (446 words)

  
 CORRECTION: Thehammer.ca Election Desk Wishes to Make a Correction
Thehammer.ca's 'Canada Doesn't Vote, 2004' Decision Desk wishes to apologize for calling a Marxist-Leninist majority government three hours before polls closed in Ontario and Quebec on election night.
http://www.thehammer.ca/content/2004/0623/feature.html?ss_id=2   (145 words)

  
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The Marxist-Leninist military government in power since 1972, led by Brig.
Economic and regional rivalries have caused numerous military coup d'‚tats and changes of government since 1960.
The official name was changed to Benin in 1976.
http://www.textfiles.com/reports/ACE/benin.txt   (362 words)

  
 National Review: From out of the rubble - Grenada documents
A LITTLE MORE than a year before his assassination, Bishop defended himself against charges that he was not a tough Leninist by saying that party members had absolute "hegemony" over every government body and five of eight trade unions.
As for the nefarious bourgeoisie, Bishop said, "They are not part of our rule and control.
When they want freedom of expression to attack the government.
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_v36/ai_3560427   (1265 words)

  
 U.S. Marxist-Leninist Organization
• Legitimacy Crisis of Government: Senate Funds Iraq War, Passes Amendment on Torture
4) Pay Reparations Now for all the crimes of slavery and all crimes of the U.S. government, present and past; and
USMLO is putting forward for discussion the following proposal for the program for an anti-war government:
http://www.usmlo.org   (363 words)

  
 THE FACTS ON NICARAGUA
After the freedom fighters had helped force the collapse of Somoza's government on July 17, 1979, Cuban advisers poured into Nicaragua to organize a Marxist-Leninist government under the Sandinista Liberation Front of Nicaragua.
Fidel Castro of Cuba and Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua drew up their infamous ``72-hour document'' as a blueprint for their ``revolution without borders'' to spread communism throughout the Western Hemisphere.
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1995/vp951126/11230002.htm   (395 words)

  
 Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada
In reality, the outcome of the Gomery Inquiry, at best, will be the determination of the facts in the case within an extremely circumscribed framework.
Government's "Multifaceted Diagnostic Exercise" to Determine Canadians' "Civic Literacy"
http://www.mlpc.ca   (179 words)

  
 The Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada Home Page
Volume I of the book Thinking about the Sixties by Hardial Bains was released April 2, 2005 at the celebration of the 35th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-
To receive regular updates, send an e-mail to Subscribe
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