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  Iraqi political groupings and individuals
It opposed the UAR's formation (especially given how its Syrian counterpart party had been dissolved on Syria's incorporation; it stood in opposition to Deputy PM 'Abd al-Salam 'Arif), holding a rally on 7 Aug 1958 for federalism rather than unity; and its support was drawn upon by Qasim in deposing 'Arif and vying with Nasir.
National Democratic Party (al-Hizb al-Watani al-Dimuqrati): founded as a legal organisation on 2 April 1946 by Kamil al-Jadirji (Chadirchi), an Ahali-linked former minister in Hikmat Sulayman government (1936-37) who resigned in Jun37 over the lack of reforms; other founding leaders include Muhammad Hadid, a former leader of the Ahali group, and Husyan Jamil.
As communist parties were persecuted, a number of leftists joined the party; in response, Chadirchi urged the party to model itself on the British Labour Party, to distinguish itself from Marxists and radical nationalists.
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  Soviet Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Soviet Union was established in December 1922 as the union of the Russian (colloquially known as Bolshevist Russia), Ukrainian, Belarusian, and Transcaucasian Soviet republics ruled by Bolshevik parties.
Modern revolutionary activity in the Russian Empire began with the Decembrist Revolt of 1825, and although serfdom was abolished in 1861, its abolition was achieved on terms unfavorable to the peasants and served to encourage revolutionaries.
The party, using its nomenklatura authority, placed its loyalists in leadership positions throughout the government, where they were subject to the norms of democratic centralism.
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 The World Factbook 2004 -- Field Listing - Background
Democratic rule was interrupted by two military coups in 1987, caused by concern over a government perceived as dominated by the Indian community (descendants of contract laborers brought to the islands by the British in the 19th century).
The democratic FRG embedded itself in key Western economic and security organizations, the EC, which became the EU, and NATO, while the communist GDR was on the front line of the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact.
Democratic elections in 1974 and a referendum created a parliamentary republic and abolished the monarchy; Greece joined the European Community or EC in 1981 (which became the EU in 1992).
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 Adolf Hitler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
The democratic regime established in Germany in 1919 (the Weimar Republic) had never been accepted by conservatives and was openly opposed by fascists.
In late 1942, German forces under Field Marshal Erwin Rommel were defeated in the battle of El Alamein, thwarting Hitler's plans to seize the Suez Canal and the Middle East.
Bal Thackeray, leader of the right-wing Shiv Sena party in the Indian state of Maharashtra, declared in 1995 that he was an admirer of Hitler.
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 Encyclopedia on the HistoryChannel.co.uk
Constitutional republic in Germany from 1919 to 1933, which was crippled by the election of antidemocratic parties to the...
A favourite of Hitler, in 1942 as chief of the general staff he supported von Paulus's request to withdraw from Stalingrad.
William Jefferson Clinton, an attorney general and multi‐term governor of Arkansas, emerged from a crowded Democratic field to challenge and defeat George Bush for the presidency in 1992.
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 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : 1942   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
1942 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar).
1942 - World War II: Second Battle of Kharkov - In the eastern Ukraine, the Soviet Army initiates a major offensive.
During the battle the Soviets will capture the city of Kharkov from the German Army, only to be encircled and destroyed.
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 Politics1 - Guide to American Political Parties
Cobb argued the party needed to nominate a candidate who openly belonged to the party (note: Nader had never joined) and was pledged to building the party at the local level.
Allies of the hardcore faction firmly held control of the party from the late-1980s until the moderates seized control at the 2006 national convention and gutted the party's original platform.
The party ran nuclear physicist John Hagelin as the NLP Presidential nominee in 1992 (ballot status in 32 stares - 39,000 votes - 0.04%), 1996 (ballot status in 44 states - 7th place - 110,000 votes - 0.1%) and 2000 (ballot status in 39 stares - 7th place - 83,000 votes - 0.08%).
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 DUP.org.uk
I wish to apply for membership of the Ulster Democratic Unionist Party and promise to uphold its aims, objectives and rules.
As an elected representative, if you attend or vote in a westminster constituency other than the one in which you reside(as under rule 3f or 4f) please state.
If you are a member of an executive, please tick which organisation you represent and indicate if you are a party officer.
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 History News Network
ICBS, founded in 1996 'to work to protect the world's cultural heritage threatened by wars and natural disasters', now calls on all parties to be respectful of the cultural property in the region.
The group is called Teachers for a Democratic Society and its original members were all among those included in Horowitz’s The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America.
Israel and Lebanon are parties to the Hague Convention, and though some of the combatants are not nation-states, the archaeologists urged them “to work within the terms of the Hague Convention and customary international law to minimize damage and destruction of these cultural sites, which are of great value to all of humankind.”
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 Articles - Mahatma Gandhi
However, at a farewell party in his honor in Durban, he happened to glance at a newspaper and learned that a bill was being considered by the Natal Legislative Assembly to deny the vote to Indians.
These measures transformed the party from an elite organization to one of mass national appeal.
After lengthy deliberations with colleagues in the Congress, he declared that India could not be party to a war ostensibly being fought for democratic freedom while that freedom was denied here.
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 Japan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
This period of isolation lasted for two and a half centuries, a time of tenuous political unity known as the Edo period, considered to be the height of Japan's medieval culture.
In 1854, U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry forced the opening of Japan to the West with the Convention of Kanagawa.
The conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has been in power since 1955, except for a short-lived coalition government formed from its opposition parties in 1993; the largest opposition party is the liberal-socialist Democratic Party of Japan.
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