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 Encyclopedia: 1954   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Berlin Conference of 1954 was a meeting of the Big Four foreign ministers of the United States (John Foster Dulles), Britain (Anthony Eden), France (Georges Bidault), and the Soviet Union (Vyacheslav Molotov), on January 25-February 18, 1954.
Henry Bonilla (born January 2, 1954) is a politician from the state of Texas.
Anthony Stewart Head (born February 20, 1954) is a British actor in theatre, television and films but most widely known for his role in the American television drama series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the role of Frank N Furter in the London revival of The Rocky Horror Show, and a...
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 A New Judicial Article for New York
A poll taken in 1954 shortly after election day showed that the overwhelming majority of the voters, both in New York City and upstate, could not recall the names of any of the men for whom they had voted in judicial contests.
In the elective system the candidate for judicial office is nominated by party bosses or leaders, whereas in the appointive system, names come before the executive in a variety of ways, but he is almost invariably susceptible to political pressure.
It involves both an appointive and an elective process, calling for the initial appointment of a judge by the executive from a list of names supplied by a nominating commission, and then requiring periodic submission of the judge to the electorate for retention or removal on the basis of his record.
www.courts.state.ny.us /history/elecbook/new_jud_art/pg4.htm   (1446 words)

  
 Sudan (08/05)
This chronic state of insurgency against the central government was suspended in 1972 after the signing of the Addis Ababa Accords granting southern Sudan wide regional autonomy on internal matters.
The executives, cabinets, and senior-level state officials are appointed by the president, and their limited budgets are determined by and dispensed from Khartoum.
Khartoum state, comprising the capital and outlying districts, is administered by a governor.
www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/5424.htm   (7522 words)

  
 Background Notes Archive - Africa
The chairman of the RCC is concurrently chief of state (president) and prime minister.
This chronic state of insurgency against the central government was suspended early in 1972 after the signing of the Addis Ababa accords granting southern Sudan wide regional autonomy on internal matters, but a 1983 decree by President Nimeiri dividing the south into three regions revived southern opposition and militant insurgency.
Sudan stated that Iraq should not have invaded Kuwait, but it was equally critical of the presence of Western forces on Islamic holy lands.
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 friendly dictators
In January 1986, Christian Democrat leader Vinicio Cerezo was elected President and said he had "the political will to respect the rights of man", but it didn't take long to find out that his political will was irrelevant in the face of Guatemala's well-oiled military machine.
Although Ronald Reagan's State Department asserted "there has not been a single clear-cut case of political killing, within months of Cerezo's inauguration, opposition leaders attributed 56 murders to security forces and death squads, while Americas Watch claimed that "throughout 1986, violent killings were reported in the Guatemalan press at the rate of 100 per month".
During regional elections in 1954, the Shah's agents raided a religious school and hurled hundreds of students to their deaths from the roof.
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 List Of State Leaders In 1963 Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Head of State - Walter Ulbricht, Chairman of the Council of State (1960-1973)
Head of State - Council of State, Chairman - Aleksander Zawadzki (1952-1964)
Secretary of State - Amleto Giovanni Cardinal Cicognani, Cardinal Secretary of State (1961-1969)
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 1954 in Ireland -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
January 11 - The Irish Council of the European Movement is formed in (Capital and largest city and major port of the Irish Free State) Dublin.
February 19 - Captain Henry Harrison, the last surviving member of the party led by (Irish nationalist leader (1846-1891)) Charles Stewart Parnell, dies aged 87.
October 16 - A marble plaque is unveiled at Westland Row, (Capital and largest city and major port of the Irish Free State) Dublin to mark the centenary of the birth of (Irish writer and wit (1854-1900)) Oscar Wilde.
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 List of state leaders in 1954 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pham Buu Loc, Prime Minister of the State of Vietnam (1954)
Ngo Dinh Diem, Prime Minister of the State of Vietnam (1954-1955)
Communist Party Leader - Bolesław Bierut, Chairman of the Central Committee of Polish United Workers' Party (1948-1954) (from 1954 First Secretary)
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_state_leaders_in_1954   (1127 words)

  
 t r u t h o u t - Christian Right Moves on "Moral Issues"
America's conservative religious leaders, credited with providing the margin of victory for President Bush's re-election, are ready to present the White House with a bill for services rendered.
Nor was the Southern Baptist leader daunted by the demonstrated ability of the Senate's Democratic minority to block judicial nominations by filibustering.
Board of Education decision in 1954, which, he said, led to years of upheaval and backlash before legislation was passed that supported racial equality.
www.truthout.org /docs_04/110804I.shtml   (1685 words)

  
 List of state leaders in 1983 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Supreme Leader - Ruhollah Khomeini, Supreme Leader of Iran (1979–1989)
Head of State - Erich Honecker, Chairman of the Council of State (1976-1989)
Secretary of State - Agostino Cardinal Casaroli, Cardinal Secretary of State (1979-1990)
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_state_leaders_in_1983   (1244 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: List of state leaders
This is a list of state leaders, showing heads of state and heads of government where different, mainly in parliamentary systems; it should be noted that often a leader is both in presidential systems or dictatorships.
Some states have semi-presidential systems where the head of government role is fulfilled by both the listed head of government and the head of state.
The head of government is the leader of the government or cabinet.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/List-of-state-leaders   (606 words)

  
 [A-List] UK state: CIA penetration of the Labour Party   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
During the Cold War the United States (and to a much lesser extent the UK) engaged in what have been called 'robust' methods, i.e.
Curiously missing from The Times' list of Godson's friends is the most important of them all, Labour Party leader Hugh Gaitskell.
While Godson and Brown 'befriended' Labour and union leaders, Sakwa was placed under cover as the Assistant Labour Attaché at the US Embassy in Brussels, from where all the CIA's European labour operations were controlled.
lists.econ.utah.edu /pipermail/a-list/2003-June/026828.html   (1550 words)

  
 CIA in 1950's Drew Up List of Guatemalan Leaders to Be Assassinated   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The assassination list contained the names of at least 58 Guatemalan supporters of Guzman who the CIA suspected were Communists.
The State Department, now led by John Foster Dulles, the brother of the director of central intelligence, Allen Dulles, worked closely with the CIA.
The 1954 coup was the first chapter in the CIA's long and continuing liaison with the Guatemalan military.
www.mtholyoke.edu /acad/intrel/weiner.htm   (700 words)

  
 List of state leaders in 1948 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1947 state leaders - Events of 1948 - 1949 state leaders - State leaders by year
David Ben-Gurion, Chairman of the Provisional State Council (1948)
Chaim Weizmann, President of the Provisional State Council (1948-1949)
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 List of state leaders in 1957 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Head of State - Georgi Purvanov Damyanov, Chairman of the Presidium of the National Assembly of Bulgaria (1950-1958)
Head of State - Aleksander Zawadzki, Chairman of the Council of State of Poland (1952-1964)
Head of State - Petru Groza, Chairman of the Presidium of the Grand National Assembly of Romania (1952-1958)
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/1957_incumbents   (2497 words)

  
 Bilderberg Group
The location of their annual meeting is not secret, and the agenda and list of participants are openly available to the public, but the topics of the meetings are kept secret: they are not published, and attendees pledge not to divulge what was discussed.
The stated reason for the group's secrecy is that it enables people to speak freely without the need to carefully consider how every word might be interpreted by the mass media.
Every year since 1954, a small network of rich and powerful people have held a discussion meeting about the state of the trans-Atlantic alliance and the problems facing Europe and the US.
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 COMING DOWN FROM THE ZEN CLOUDS: A Critique of the Current State of American Zen
Kapleau himself has explicitly stated that he is not a dharma heir of his teacher, Yasutani Roshi, and did not receive the title roshi from him or anyone else.
You should not grasp at that understanding and say, "I have already awakened to the fact that the nature of the defilements is void," for later when you decide to cultivate, your practice will, on the contrary, become inverted.
This caused a split with the traditional, celibate monks in the Korean Sangha that became so severe that in 1954 President Syngman Rhee was called in to resolve the dispute.
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 Suriname (09/05)
Following the murders, the United States and the Netherlands suspended economic and military cooperation with the Bouterse regime, which increasingly began to follow an erratic but generally leftist-oriented political course.
In the national election held on May 25, 2005, the ruling NF coalition suffered a significant setback due to widespread dissatisfaction with the state of the economy and a public perception that the NF had produce few tangible gains for the country.
Narcotics trafficking organizations appear to be channeling increasing quantities of cocaine through Suriname for repackaging and transport to Europe and the United States; and of XTC for transport to the United States.
www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/1893.htm   (4783 words)

  
 Syria (10/05)
After the overthrow of President Shishakli in a 1954 coup, continued political maneuvering supported by competing factions in the military eventually brought Arab nationalist and socialist elements to power.
Syria's political instability during the years after the 1954 coup, the parallelism of Syrian and Egyptian policies, and the appeal of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser's leadership in the wake of the 1956 Suez crisis created support in Syria for union with Egypt.
The president has the right to appoint ministers, to declare war and states of emergency, to issue laws (which, except in the case of emergency, require ratification by the People's Council), to declare amnesty, to amend the constitution, and to appoint civil servants and military personnel.
www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/3580.htm   (6810 words)

  
 ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: B-1
Personal papers represent a galaxy of well-known politicians, state functionaries, and trade-union leaders from both the prerevolutionary and Soviet periods, as well as those of the imperial family.
A list of some 5,000 files relating to subjects covered by special presidential declassification regulations, such as those relating to human rights, prisoners of war, and repressed individuals, and which have recently been declassified, is available to interested researchers.
Includes lists of fonds in each of the present holding archives, personal- and geographic-name indexes, as well as an index by type of agency.
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 1954 Online Research :: Information about 1954   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Lists of leaders: List of state leaders in 1954 - List of religious leaders in 1954
January 25 - The foreign ministers of the United States, United Kingdom, France and the Soviet Union meet at the Berlin Conference, 1954.
April 22 - United States Senate Joseph McCarthy begins hearings investigating the United States Army for being "soft" on Communism.
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 China (03/05)
Chinese civilization was further strengthened by the development of a Confucian state ideology and a common written language that bridged the gaps among the country's many local languages and dialects.
The State Department’s annual China human rights reports have noted China’s well-documented abuses of human rights in violation of internationally recognized norms, stemming both from the authorities’ intolerance of dissent and the inadequacy of legal safeguards for basic freedoms.
In this third communiqué, the U.S. stated its intention to reduce gradually the level of arms sales to Taiwan, and the Chinese described as a fundamental policy their effort to strive for a peaceful resolution to the Taiwan question.
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 Politics | Campaign 2004
To be sure, few Americans dispute the desirability of having political leaders with combat-tested military credentials.
We've compiled a side-by-side listing of prominent politicians and their military service histories, including a comparison of the Democratic and Republican tickets.
At the end of the listing, be sure to peruse the military service records of some of the more vocal journalists, pundits and bloggers.
www.azcentral.com /news/election/articles/sidebyside-military.html   (408 words)

  
 ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: B 12
The consolidated archive was renamed the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History--RGASPI and now serves as the main depository for documentation relating to the history of socialism, the records of the CPSU and its predecessors, mainly before 1953, as well as the records of the Komsomol.
Personal papers are rich with documentation of Bolshevik leaders, such as N. Bukharin, F. erzhinskii, M. Kalinin, L. Kamenev (Rozenfel'd), S. Kirov (Kostrikov), V. Molotov (Skriabin), I. Stalin (Dzhugashvili), L. Trotskii (Bronshtein), K. Voroshilov, A. Zhdanov, and G. Zinov'ev (Radomysl'skii), and of prominent spokesmen of alternative RSDRP tendencies P. Aksel'rod, L. Martov (Iu.
As of May 2004, many of the Stalin papers, and those of other CP leaders, that were transferred from AP RF in April 1999 are still not open for public research.
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 Who served?
Mike Thompson, D-CA: Staff sergeant/platoon leader with the 173rd Airborne Brigade, U.S. Army; was wounded and received a Purple Heart.
Secretary of Defense Don Rumsfeld - served in the U.S. Navy (1954-57) as an aviator and flight instructor.
Having been a reservist and now in a state defense force serving with Guard in my state, I wanted to ask you to clarify for the masses the HUGE difference between the National Guard during the Vietnam War and today.
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 List of state leaders in 1956 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1955 state leaders - Events of 1956 - 1957 state leaders - State leaders by year
Head of State - Mao Zedong, Chairman of the People's Republic of China (1954-1959)
Tanzan Ishibashi, Prime Minister of Japan (1956 - 1957)
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 List of state leaders in 1958 - Biocrawler definition:List of state leaders in 1958 - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
List of state leaders in 1958 - Biocrawler definition:List of state leaders in 1958 - Biocrawler
1957 state leaders - Events of 1958 - 1959 state leaders - State leaders by year
You can find it there under the keyword /encyclopedia/List_of_state_leaders_in_1958 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//encyclopedia/List_of_state_leaders_in_1958)The list of previous authors is available here: version history (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=/encyclopedia/List_of_state_leaders_in_1958andaction=history).
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