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	National Review Online (http://www.nationalreview.com)
		Democrats wanted a sober George Marshall on the campaign trail; instead Americans are beginning to witness an embittered, conspiracy-obsessed Maj. General Smedley Butler come alive — endorsed by the slander-spouting Michael Moore instead of respected peers like General Schwarzkopf.
		We all wish that Democratic canard were so, but in fact his apoplexy followed the sight of a kindred Arab dictator scrambling out at gunpoint from an abandoned septic tank.
		But apart from the (necessary) inconvenience at airports, it is hard for Americans to agree with the Democrats that we are living in a police state — or that after September 11 we have been at the mercy of al Qaeda while President Bush was purportedly asleep at the wheel.
	www.nationalreview.com /script/printpage.p?ref=/hanson/hanson200401230840.asp (1925 words)

	Democratization
		Democratic practices can flourish only in the context of educated and informed citizens in society and making opportunities available to form their own organizations for the articulation of their needs and interests.
		The quality of democratization and institutionalization may be affected by the quality of civic education, skills and dispositions and performance of the polity during the transition period.
		Re-education on democratic participation, control and decision-making is an educational challenge of enormous significance which the partner organizations of FES are taking to the grassroots.
	www.fesnepal.org /activities/demotraziation.htm (2426 words)

	Al Jazeera English - Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This promising democratic experience, led by both civilian intellectuals and army officers, ended with the British military occupation of Egypt in September 1882.
		The promise of strict commitment to the rules of a democratic regime was made also in Tunisia in November 1987 following the removal by the then Tunisian prime minister and a former security chief Zin al-Din Bin Ali of Al-Habib Burguiba, the country's ailing first president after independence.
		While the second reference suggests lifting all restrictions on the exercise of freedom of association, the second qualifies establishment of political parties to be based on the principle of citizenship, which could be also interpreted as excluding parties founded on a religious basis.
	english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/304E377D-0D93-49DA-BF95-8E342649147A.htm (1599 words)

	Armchair General Forums - Democracy Rising
		The elections were not the first democratic polls in the occupied territories but the death of Yasser Arafat - who was the unchallenged Palestinian supremo for decades - fuelled hope of more transparency in internal affairs.
		Saudi Arabia took a step to democratise its ultra-conservative monarchy by organising elections for the first time, at the level of municipal councils, with the promise that women would be allowed to participate in the next polls.
		Salama said that all the movements advocating democratic reforms in the region could have the same motto: kefaya, an Arabic word which means "enough" and has become a rallying cry for Egypt's Popular Movement.
	www.armchairgeneral.com /forums/printthread.php?t=23322 (1575 words)

	Environment
		The Democratic platform clearly states the party's commitment to the preservation of national lands and parks.
		The legislation precludes the EPA from interfering in the state cleanups unless (1) a state requests assistance, (2) the contamination migrates across state lines or onto federal property, or (3) there is an "imminent and substantial endangerment" to public health or the environment and additional work needs to be done.
		The 2004 Democratic platform was silent on the issue while, without specifically referring to genetically modified foods, the Republican platform lamented the "outrageous" trade restrictions imposed by Europe on American crops and livestock.
	www.newsbatch.com /environment.htm (9512 words)

	Haiti News
		They all claimed to be democrats in a country that never truly lived a decisive democratic experience.
		The democratic transition became almost immediately an exercise in rhetorical futility notably under the watch of General Henry Namphy.
		Political forces should not be trusted as democratic when they have not been in power to prove and harden themselves in the practice of democracy.
	www.haitipolicy.org /archives/Dec2001-Feb02/Killick.htm (1336 words)

	Great Awakening. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Although there were early local stirrings in New Jersey in the 1720s under the evangelical preaching of Theodorus Frelinghuysen of the Dutch Reformed Church, the revival in the Middle Colonies actually began in New Jersey largely among the Presbyterians trained under William Tennent.
		The Great Awakening also resulted in an outburst of missionary activity among Native Americans by such men as David Brainerd, Eleazar Wheelock, and Samuel Kirkland; in the first movement of importance against slavery; and in various other humanitarian undertakings.
		It served to build up interests that were intercolonial in character, to increase opposition to the Anglican Church and the royal officials who supported it, and to encourage a democratic spirit in religion.
	www.bartleby.com /65/gr/GreatAwa.html (513 words)

	ECML Publications
		Discovering at school the diversity of languages and cultures, listening to dozens of languages, including some of the languages spoken by classmates, marvelling at the way those languages are written, comparing them and understanding how they work, taking an interest in those who speak them...
		These are the types of activities that the awakening to languages offers pupils; to help them open up to what is different, and develop their ability to observe and learn languages.
		The Janua Linguarum programme, developed at the European Centre for Modern Languages between 2000 and 2003, has focused on disseminating the awakening to languages approach in sixteen countries of Europe and on studying the conditions under which it was introduced into their curricula.
	www.ecml.at /scripts/ChangeLanguage.asp?l=F&s=%2Fdoccentre%2Fabstract%2Easp%3Fr%3D58%26%26%26l%3DF (238 words)

	This Far by Faith . 1526-1775: from AFRICA to AMERICA \| PBS
		The Great Awakening was a watershed moment in the maturation of America, both politically and spiritually.
		Social democratic ideals were still forming in the heartland of colonial America and would come to the fore with the onset of the Revolutionary War.
		The Great Awakening was fundamentally a humanitarian movement, fostering religious, class, and racial tolerance.
	www.pbs.org /thisfarbyfaith/journey_1/p_5.html (386 words)

	Middle East Online
		The elections were not the first democratic polls in the occupied territories but the death of Yasser Arafat - who was the unchallenged Palestinian supremo for decades - fuelled hope of more transparency in internal affairs.
		Saudi Arabia took a step to democratise its ultra-conservative monarchy by organising elections for the first time, at the level of municipal councils, with the promise that women would be allowed to participate in the next polls.
		Salama said that all the movements advocating democratic reforms in the region could have the same motto: kefaya, an Arabic word which means "enough" and has become a rallying cry for Egypt's Popular Movement.
	www.middle-east-online.com /english/?id=12836 (708 words)

	German Democratic Republic - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The German Democratic Republic (GDR; German: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, or DDR; informally known in English as East Germany) was a Communist state, which existed from 1949 to 1990 in the Soviet Zone of occupied Germany (SBZ).
		The German Democratic Republic was proclaimed in East Berlin on October 7, 1949 in the Soviet-occupied zone of Germany, following the proclamation in May 1949 of the Federal Republic of Germany ("West Germany") in the zones of Germany formerly occupied by the United States, Britain and France.
		It was created in 1946 through the merger of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) in the Soviet controlled zone.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/GDR (4252 words)

	The Democratic Party: Backlash at Republicans Raises Hopes
		Day after day, Democrats have worked to capitalize on this by criticizing Republicans for ignoring issues Democrats claim are far more important to most Americans, like the administration-led initiatives on education, health care and social security.
		Gov. Roy Romer of Colorado, the other Democratic co-chairman, said party leaders have been especially heartened by recent polls that show Clinton's popularity has been rising since Monday, when the videotape of his Aug. 17 grand jury testimony was shown to the nation.
		Grossman said the polls reflect the country's "revulsion against the politics of polarization to the extent Democrats recognize that the stakes could not be higher" in the fall elections.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/politics/092698dems-meeting.html (700 words)

	Germany: the career of Christian Democratic Union leader Angela Merkel Part 1: East Germany--youth and political ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		At Waldhof, Merkel would have come to know Rainer Eppelmann, the later founder of Democratic Awakening, the organisation in which she launched her political career after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
		In December 1989, Angela Merkel joined Democratic Awakening, which had been founded by the clerics Rainer Eppelmann and Friedrich Schorlemmer, as well as Wolfgang Schnur, the trusted attorney of the Evangelical Church in the GDR.
		Democratic Awakening was dissolved in August 1990 into the East German CDU, which itself was dissolved into the West German party following German reunification in October of that year.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2005/jul2005/cdu1-j08.shtml (2260 words)

	Democratic Awakening
		Democratic Awakening (German: Demokratischer Aufbruch) was an East German opposition political movement.
		On August 5, 1990 it merged into the Christian Democratic Union of Germany, ceasing to exist.
		demographics of the democratic republic of the congo
	www.kiwipedia.com /democratic-awakening.html (89 words)

	Re: THE WORLD AWAKENING?
		It's good to know some of the decent people are still among the living, he just can't have any influence over the democratic political bosses, none of the above can,...the pols are in it for the power, or regaining their lost power.
		Most of his Democratic opponents who are running for president do not have the stomach to stand up to the bin Ladens and Saddam Husseins of the world.
		I am convinced that the world is awakening to the danger of standing by silently while terrorists around the world exact higher and higher tolls in innocent lives.
	knoxville.wate.com /sound_off/index.php/topic,140.0.html (303 words)

	Party Programme
		Their awakening assumes a variety of forms and is often led by various types of party and non-party forces, including at times the opposition parties of the ruling classes.
		In order to carry the people's democratic revolution through to an end, it is necessary that a people's democratic front be forged comprising all these classes, with the worker-peasant alliance as its core, under the leadership of the working class.
		But in a country where democratic institutions are based on essentially fragile and narrow foundations and where even small victories and partial reforms can only be achieved and maintained on the strength of mass militancy, the party of the proletariat must prepare itself for winning the ultimate decisive victory in an armed revolution.
	www.cpiml.org /pgs/partyprogram/prog.htm (2106 words)

	Mexico's Political Awakening by Vikram K. Chand from Foyles Bookshop, London.
		He focuses on three important factors that fostered this transition: the growing participation of the Catholic Church and its lay organizations in politics, the proliferation of non-governmental civic associations dedicated to promoting clean elections, and the emergence of vibrant opposition parties.
		Mexico's Political Awakening is a "bottom-up" perspective on democratization, correcting analyses which view that process in Mexico as flowing down from the President.
		Itchallenges existing theories of democratization by emphasizing the importance of strong social institutions for the development of democracy, and it demonstrates that increases in political participation play a vital role in strengthening those institutions.
	www.foyles.co.uk /foyles/display.asp?m=49&dc=70&mw=1&st_01=Vikram&sf_01=CAUTHOR (334 words)

	A Better Model Than Beirut (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Palestinians come to their democratic struggle with determination born of their experience living under the ironic reality of military occupation by the region's most democratic government.
		The occupation and the Palestinians' lack of sovereignty also add special burdens on their path to a democratic future—and they mean that the fate of Palestinian democracy does not rest solely in Palestinian hands.
		If the Palestinians' fragile democratic experiment is to succeed, it will require urgent investment by Israel, the United States and the international community—including the Arab leaders who might desire Israeli-Palestinian rapprochement but who fear the implications of growing Palestinian democracy.
	www.brookings.edu /pagedefs/179ecf74c6f1ff3e2d8d62730a1415cb.xml (822 words)

	GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC: parliamentary elections Volkskammer, 1990
		Their programmes centered mainly on when and how reunification with the Federal Republic of (West) Germany should take place, and the campaign was punctuated by frequent appearances of West German politicians accompanied by a considerable influx of party funds.
		On the other hand, purely East German groupings such as the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) – the former ruling communist party – and the left-wing Alliance ’90 called for retention of particular GDR characteristics, underlining in particular the State-provided comprehensive social protection.
		The Social Democratic Party (SPD) stood in the middle, favoring cautious unity in order to avoid problems of unemployment and economic stability but also preservation of some of the GDR’s socialist traditions.
	www.ipu.org /parline-e/reports/arc/2121bis_90.htm (450 words)

	Arutz Sheva - Israel National News
		If Bush truly believed that Abbas was the key to a democratic, tolerant, and Arafat-free Palestinian Authority, he ought to be fuming now.
		The absence of Palestinian democracy -- the lack of even the first stirrings of a democratic awakening -- is getting little if any press attention.
		Bush was quick to embrace Abbas, a man with a long record of supporting terror and few credentials as a democrat.
	www.israelnationalnews.com /article.php3?id=2348 (804 words)

	Union for Reform Judaism - Awakening from Indifference and Apathy
		On this day, the public is called upon to internalize the lessons of this terrible assassination and the circumstances within which it took place; to recognize the dangers inherent in political and religious extremism, which is spreading in our communities.
		This day should awaken all of us from indifference and apathy to violence and sedition.
		In view of the fact that this heinous crime was committed, as it were, in the name of halacha, the Union of Progressive Rabbis, reaffirms the need to reject any and all attempts to compromise the democratic nature of the state of Israel in the name of Jewish tradition.
	www.urj.org /Articles/index.cfm?id=12456&pge_prg_id=40571&pge_id=1348 (395 words)

	Rude Awakening (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		BUCHAREST, Romania--The ruling Social Democratic Party (PSD) gained a wafer-thin lead over the opposition in Romania's general election on 28 November, but a hung parliament may yet emerge and the opposition is crying foul.
		But Monday morning brought a rude awakening for the ex-communist PSD.
		According to the preliminary results, the nationalist Greater Romania Party (PRM) received around 13 percent of the vote, while the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians (UDMR) got around 8 percent, easily clearing the 5-percent threshold needed to enter parliament.
	www.tol.cz /look/TOLrus/article.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=4&NrIssue=92&NrSection=1&NrArticle=13121&ALStart=20 (467 words)

	Alliance for Germany . Democratic Awakening . German Social Union . Volkskammer . East Germany . German Forum Party . ...
		It was formed in February 1990 to fight the Volkskammer elections.
		It consisted of the Christian Democratic Union East Germany Christian Democratic Union, Democratic Awakening and the German Social Union.
		Democratic Union was an East German political party founded in 1945.
	www.uk.kunsimuna.net /Alliance_for_Germany_UK_206022_ai (505 words)

	After Madrid: war, prevention, dialogue? - Discussion forum
		This democratic awakening was expressed by the vote.
		Their mask fell and the true face of the prime minister was on the open revealing his real interest; which eventually are not any different than the Bush administration, France, Italy or any other untruthful government, regardless of their behavior things continue as usual and the awakening moment was once again laid to rest.
		This democratic breeze push itself up north and the French election witness a similar outcome.
	www.opendemocracy.net /forums/thread.jspa?forumID=147&threadID=42472&messageID=48289 (432 words)

	The Center for Security Policy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		These parties formed a coalition government with the Social Democrats on 9 April, one which excludes the communists from power altogether.
		After some weeks of discussions, the SPD reversed its original opposition to joining a governing coalition with the Alliance and, on 9 April 1990, agreement was announced on a Grand Coalition to encompass the CDU/Alliance, the Free Democrats and the SPD.
		The SPD will take seven cabinet seats including Foreign Affairs and the remaining six cabinet seats will be divided among the other parties (with a Lutheran minister from Democratic Awakening to hold the defense portfolio).
	www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org /index.jsp?section=papers&code=90-35 (1601 words)

	Remarks to Representatives of the Organization of American States
		And one of the great privileges of my office is that I have been able, in the last several years, to meet with the leaders of practically every democratic nation in the hemisphere.
		One is a democratic revolution to replace the dictatorships of the past with freedom and human rights.
		Essential steps toward establishing true and secure democratic guarantees must be taken before the other conditions for peace can be met.
	www.reagan.utexas.edu /archives/speeches/1987/110987c.htm (2150 words)

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