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Ads by Google      National Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Its leader, Avigdor Lieberman, former secretary to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu (1996-1999) and himself a Russian immigrant in the early 1980s, became leader of the National Union in 2001 following the assassination of Zeevi (at the time the Israeli tourism minister). For the party of Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar, see National Union (Portugal) National Union (Hebrew: Ha'ihud Ha'Leumi האיחוד הלאומי) is a right-wing Israeli political party formed from the merger of three parties: Moledet ("homeland"), Yisrael Beytenu ("Israel is our home"), and Tkuma ("resurrection"). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Union   (462 words)      Portugal Among the first actions to be undertaken were the nationalization of certain types of heavy industry and banking, and the expropriation and redistribution of large agricultural holdings. In 1826 Pedro I of Brazil succeeded to the throne of Portugal as Pedro IV. Present-day Portugal became a part of the Roman province of Lusitania in the 2nd century BC. http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/GeogHist/histories/history/hiscountries/P/portugal.html   (3417 words)      Portugal - Political Parties In the national elections of 1985, the PRD received 17.9 percent of the vote and seemed poised to emerge as a major electoral contender. The PCP, along with its far-left allies, got 17 percent of the vote in the first democratic election in Portugal in 1975, and for several elections after that it held its position at approximately 12 to 19 percent of the vote. As Portugal became democratic after 1974, it also developed a political party system with a full spectrum of parties that ranged from the far left to the far right. http://countrystudies.us/portugal/88.htm   (2024 words)      Soviet Union - encyclopedia article about Soviet Union. While doubts remained over their authority to dissolve the Union, on 25 December 1991, Gorbachev resigned as the president of the USSR and turned the powers of his office over to Boris Yeltsin. By gradually consolidating his influence and isolating his rivals within the party, notably Lenin's more obvious heir Leon Trotsky, Joseph Stalin became the sole leader of the Soviet Union by the end of the 1920s. The Soviet Union occupied the eastern portion of the European continent and the northern portion of the Asian continent. http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Soviet+Union   (6628 words)      A Tribute to (For dummies) Party leaders saw the opportunity to broaden the base of the party and adopted the name National Union Party. At the 1860 Republican National Convention, Abraham Lincoln became the Presidential nominee. In the 1854 Congressional elections, 44 Republicans were elected as part of the anti-Nebraskan majority in the House, and many Republicans were elected to the Senate and various state houses. http://www.geocities.com/mst84/shelbyt.html   (264 words)      Portugal Essay After Salazar's death, however, the National Union's grip over the country and in particular the military steadily weakened. The National Union continued to hold power very firmly, and there was little if any meaningful opposition. Throughout the 1960s, despite anticolonial movements in Portugal's colonies, Salazar was still firmly in power until his death in 1968. http://www.janda.org/ICPP/ICPP2000/Countries/1-WestCentralEurope/17-Portugal/Portugal63-00.htm   (1575 words)      Glossary.html The National Union of Brewers of the United States organized in 1886 and affiliated with the AFL as the Brewers' National Union in March 1887. He later served as secretary of the Sailors' Union of the Pacific (1891-92, 1892-1936), president of the International Seamen's Union of America (1897-99, 1908-38), and as a legislative representative in Washington, D.C., for the AFL (1895-1902) and for the Seamen. He served as president of the National Progressive Union of Miners and Mine Laborers in 1889 and was a leader in merging that union with KOL National Trade Assembly 135 in 1890 to form the UMWA. http://www.history.umd.edu/Gompers/glossary.html   (1575 words)      Whatever Happened to Lori Berenson, President Toledo's Trophy Prisoner? Peru's ambassador to the White House reveals himself to be one more smarmy Fujimori servitor, but this time appointed by the self-professed reformer, President Alejandro Toledo. By ratifying and upholding the remaining three decree-laws of '92, the Constitutional Court of Peru stood directly in opposition to the decisions of the Inter-American Court. The CIDH and the IACHR have previously analyzed Peru's anti-terrorist decree-laws of 1992 and have published unanimous decisions holding that the laws violate the canon of the Convention. http://www.freelori.org/groups/coha/04jun07_coha.html   (1575 words)      About Sharecropping All sharecroppers and tenant farmers were transferred into the ranks of the National Farmers Union, and the SCU’s agricultural wage laborers were told to join the Agricultural Worker’s Union, an affiliate of the American Federation of Labor. A shootout between union members and the local sheriff at Camp Hill, Alabama, left Ralph Gray dead and forced many union and non-union tenant farmers into hiding. Mack Coad, an illiterate black steelworker originally from Charleston, South Carolina, was dispatched from Birmingham on behalf of the Communist Party and became the first secretary of the Croppers and Farm Workers Union. http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/brown/sharecropping.htm   (1575 words)      HarpWeek Elections 1864 Overview The nominating convention of the National Union Party, dominated by Republicans with a scattering of War Democrats, met in Baltimore on June 7-8, 1864. The Republican campaign warned the Union: “Don’t swap horses in the middle of the stream.” They went beyond that innocuous slogan, however, to equate opposition to Lincoln and the Republicans with disloyalty to the Union. With 78 percent of the Union electorate casting ballots, Lincoln was reelected in an Electoral College landslide, 212 to McClellan’s 21. http://elections.harpweek.com/1864/Overview-1864-2.htm   (1567 words)      American Experience The Time of the Lincolns Partisan Politics The Constitutional Union Party was the anti-extremist party, absorbing Southern Whigs who didn't want to vote Democratic and Northern Whigs who felt the Republicans were too radical. Southern Democrats walked out of the Democratic National Convention, which nominated Stephen A. Douglas on a popular sovereignty platform, to name their own candidate, John C. Breckenridge, on a slave code ticket. Amid this turmoil, the Republican Party was born... http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lincolns/politics/tl_tree.html   (1092 words)      European Union - definition of European Union in Encyclopedia The tension between EU and national (or sub-national) competence is an enduring one in the development of the European Union. The European Union has many activities, the most important being a common single market, consisting of a customs union, a single currency (adopted by 12 out of 25 member states), a Common Agricultural Policy and a Common Fisheries Policy, and a common defence including activities such as peacekeeping missions. The most recent amendments to the Treaty of Rome were agreed as part of the Treaty of Accession of the 10 new member states, which entered into force on 1 May 2004. http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/European_Union   (3626 words)      Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 Cooperation between the USSR and the Western powers—already shaky during the war—ceased soon after the armistice, and relations between the Soviet Union and the United States (which emerged from the war as the two chief powers in the world) became increasingly strained, leading to the international tension of the cold war. The NEP ushered in a period of relative stability and prosperity, and in 1922 the treaty of union formally joined Russia, Ukraine, Belorussia, and Transcaucasia (divided in 1936 into the Georgian, Armenian, and Azerbaijan republics). In the technological race between the Soviet Union and the West (principally the United States), the USSR exploded (1953) a hydrogen bomb; announced (1957) the development of intercontinental ballistic missiles; orbited (1957) the first artificial earth satellite (called Sputnik); and in 1961 sent Yuri Gagarin in the first manned orbital flight. http://www.bartleby.com/65/un/UnionSov.html   (5286 words)      Al-Ahram Weekly Opinion Bigger choice than ever Following the breakup of the UAR in 1961, a new constitution was promulgated as was a new state party -- the Arab Socialist Union (ASU) -- from which candidates were drawn for the National Assembly elections that were held in 1962 and again in 1969. Many National Party members had withdrawn from the party to run as independents, leaving voters with a choice mostly limited to ruling party candidates and ruling party breakaways. If, in the forthcoming elections, the majority of contestants are still National Party candidates or National Party breakaways, the number of opposition candidates has increased considerably, a factor that holds the promise of an intriguing electoral battle. http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2000/502/op1.htm   (1024 words)      Kenya African National Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Kenya African National Union, better known as KANU, ruled Kenya for nearly 40 years after its independence from British colonial rule in 1963, until its electoral loss at the end of 2002. In June 1982, the National Assembly amended the constitution, making Kenya officially a one-party state, and parliamentary elections were held in September 1983. At the last legislative national elections held December 27, 2002, the party won an overall 29.0 % of the popular vote and 64 out of 212 elected seats. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenya_African_National_Union   (589 words)      Peru profile and general information Congress President Valentin Paniagua was selected according to Peru’s constitution to head an interim government after President Alberto Fujimori fled the country and resigned in November 2000 in the wake of a bribery scandal and political turmoil resulting from his tainted re-election to a third term in June 2000. Peru is divided into 24 departments and the constitutional province of Callao, the country's chief port, adjacent to Lima. The basic legal structure for foreign investment in Peru is formed by the 1993 constitution, the Private Investment Growth Law, and the November 1996 Investment Promotion Law. http://www.peru-explorer.com/peru.htm   (589 words)      PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL CONVENTION National Convention delegates are urged to make studies when the National Convention is in recess." In accord with the address, the Commission and the Work Committee, during the adjourned period conducted thorough studies on a wide array of fields to acquire detailed basic principles for distribution of power in the Executive, Legislative and Judicial sectors. The National Convention Convening Work Committee clarified matters concerning the detailed basic principles for the Executive, Legislative and Judicial sectors that are to be included in drafting the State Constitution. Chairman of the National Convention Convening Commission Secretary-2 of the State Peace and Development Council Lt-Gen Thein Sein presided over the plenary session of the Convention and Secretary of the Commission Minister for Information Brig-Gen Kyaw Hsan acted as master of ceremonies. http://www.ibiblio.org/obl/docs/Proc2004-05-18.htm   (589 words)      CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Catholic Young Men's National Union In 1878 the National Union inaugurated the movement for obtaining appointments of a greater number of Catholic chaplains to the army and navy -- a movement which was entirely successful. The reorganization also created the office of the spiritual director, who is practically the senior officer of the National Union, and is supreme in all matters affecting faith and morals. The Catholic Summer School at Plattsburg, New York, is a direct outgrowth of the National Union plans for its establishment having been discussed and approved at the conventions, and carried into effect by Warren E. Mosher, the secretary of the National Union at the time, and the founder of the Summer School. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10712a.htm   (589 words)      CPL African Americans and National Party Convention History: A Chronology After serving as a delegate to the state constitutional convention in 1868 and to the national Republican convention in 1868, Pinchback was elected to the state senate and as Lieutenant Governor. In Chicago, the Republican National Committee defeated the "lily whitism" of Southern delegates to the national convention, and also required that African Americans be admitted to state and district conventions. The listings of southern Black Republican delegates to national conventions from 1868-1944 found in Black Republicans, some of which may only be partial, still indicate the slow progress of political parties, even the party that nominated Abraham Lincoln for the Presidency, in bringing African Americans into their ranks. http://www.chipublib.org/002branches/woodson/wncovention.html   (589 words)      Union party on Encyclopedia.com Although some believed that the Union ticket might deprive Franklin Delano Roosevelt of many normally Democratic votes, Lemke failed to get on the ballot in many states and polled only 882,000 votes. The Union party was hardly more than a name; very few Democrats were attracted, and the party reverted to its Republican designation in 1868. Eli HAZEEV a member of the Kach ultranationalist Jewish party who was of American origin, was killed in May 1980 in front of Hadassa House.He is buried in the old J (PAR29911) http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/u/unionpar.asp   (907 words)      Lincoln Chronology February 22 - The National Union Party (a temporary name for the Republican Party used to spark interest in the notion of a once-again United States) convention in Baltimore nominated to Lincoln for re-election. Lincoln was chosen by the Republican National Convention in Chicago to represent the party in the 1860 Presidential election. The burial place is preserved in the Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial in Spencer County, Indiana. http://www.nps.gov/liho/lincoln.htm   (2393 words)      Portugal 1471 Kingdom of Portugal and of the Algarves. 1093 County of Portugal, within Kingdom of León. 16 Dec 1815 United Kingdom of Portugal, and of Brazil, and http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Portugal.htm   (4360 words)      BIGpedia - European Union - Encyclopedia and Dictionary Online The tension between EU and national (or sub-national) competence is an enduring one in the development of the European Union. As seen above, in certain areas where member states have transferred a degree of sovereignty to the Union the EU begins to resemble a federation or confederation. The Union was established under that name by the Treaty on European Union (commonly known as the Maastricht Treaty) in 1992. http://www.bigpedia.com/encyclopedia/European_Union   (4360 words)      National Union: Information From Answers.com Its leader, Avigdor Lieberman, former secretary to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu (1996-1999) and himself a Russian immigrant in the early 1980s, became leader of the National Union in 2001 following the assassination of Zeevi (at the time the Israeli tourism minister). For the party of Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar, see National Union (Portugal) National Union (Hebrew: Ha'ihud Ha'Leumi איחוד הלאומי) is a right-wing Israeli political party formed from the merger of three parties: Moledet ("homeland"), Israel Beytenu ("Israel is our home"), and Tkuma ("resurrection"). http://www.answers.com/topic/national-union   (460 words)      Encyclopedia: African Union The heads of state and heads of government of the OAU issued the Sirte Declaration on September 9, 1999, calling for the establishment of an African Union. The flag of the African Union bears a broad green horizontal stripe, a narrow band of gold, the emblem of the African Union at the centre of a broad white stripe, another narrow gold band and a final broad green stripe. The African Union was launched in Durban on July 9, 2002, by its first president, South African Thabo Mbeki, at the first session of the Assembly of the African Union. http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/African-Union   (6129 words)      National Union for the Total Independence of Angola --  Encyclopædia Britannica (1934–2002), Angolan politician, born in Portuguese Angola, on Aug. 3, 1934; studied medicine at University of Lisbon in Portugal; doctorate in political science at University of Lausanne, Switz.; in 1966 formed National Union for Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), which fought successfully against Portuguese colonial rule; throughout 1970s and 1980s waged guerrilla... UNITA was organized in 1966 by elements formerly associated with the National Front for the Liberation of Angola (FNLA) and the Popular Union of Angola, the latter led by Jonas Savimbi, who became the leader of UNITA. On October 29 the Council voted unanimously to impose travel sanctions against the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) to punish the organization for flouting peace accords signed in 1994 that required UNITA to disarm its fighters and integrate them into a national army. http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9389320   (900 words)      Tom DeLay - dKosopedia As a member of the Republican minority, DeLay made a name for himself in the 1980's by attacking the National Endowment for the Arts and the Environmental Protection Agency. His Christian conservative viewpoint led him to vote 100% in line with the views of the National Right to Life Committee and 0% with the National Abortion Reproductive Rights Action League. In 2003, Texas Democrats from the State House made national headlines when they traveled across the state border to Oklahoma en masse to deny a quorum for voting on the plan. http://www.dkosopedia.com/index.php/Tom_DeLay   (2135 words)      VOA Special English - The American Civil War: Election of 1864 Under the Union constitution, a national president was to be elected every four years. President Lincoln's new National Union Party held its convention in Baltimore, Maryland. The Union of northern states was fighting the Confederacy of southern states. http://www.manythings.org/voa/05/2005-05-18-2.html   (1137 words)      CNN/AllPolitics.com - Election 2000 - The Republican National Convention Hamlin, an influential anti-slavery senator from the state of Maine, caused a national stir in 1856 when he abruptly announced his resignation from the Democratic Party and joined the fledgling Republicans. Dole, a former chairman of the Republican National committee, was a pragmatic conservative with an established reputation as an effective, sometimes vicious campaigner. Franklin Roosevelt threatened to decline the Democratic nomination unless the convention agreed to Henry Wallace as his running mate. http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2000/conventions/republican/features/running.mates   (1137 words)      Untitled Document All KNU district representatives are permitted to attend the Congress, to nominate candidates, and to vote in the election. Once every four years there is a KNU Congress, with a duration of at least three weeks, during which an election, including for the President and Vice-President, is held. The DAB was founded as a response to the massacres committed in major Burmese cities in 1988 by the SPDC’s predecessor, the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC). http://www.dictatorwatch.org/articles/karenintro.html   (1137 words)

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