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In the News (Thu 31 Dec 09)

  
  IJA631
The anarchists and the people of the world in general cannot accept that the blood shed by our fellows is assumened by the Partido Justicialista (Peron's followers), which, with great smiles, formed their new cabinet.
New presidential elections had been scheduled for March, but the MPs say they want the new leader to stay in power for longer, in the hope of bringing some stability back to the country.
Spanish firms - such as oil company Repsol - could bear the brunt of the Argentine government's attempts to pass the costs of devaluation onto banks and private firms while cushioning consumers.
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  Spanish legislative election, 2004 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The day after the election, Zapatero announced his intention to form a minority PSOE government, without a coalition, saying in a radio interview: "the implicit mandate of the people is for us to form a minority government negotiating accords on each issue with other parliamentary groups".
This was the eighth general election since the restoration of democratic government in 1978, or the ninth if the elections to a constitutional assembly in 1977 are included.
At the 2000 general election, the People's Party won a majority of seats in Congress with 183 seats, the Socialists won 125, the Catalan nationalist party Convergence and Unity won 15 and the United Left (a coalition around the Communist Party) won 8.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spanish_legislative_election,_2004   (1320 words)

  
 Spanish Socialist Party. P.S.O.E. (Partido Socialista Obrero Espanol)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In the first democratic general election, held in June 1977, it had 103 deputies and 35 senators elected, and thus took shape as the first party of the opposition.
In the general election of 1982 it obtanied and absolute majority, with 202 deputies and 134 senators and on December 1st.
In the general election of 1989 it obtained 175 seats in Congress and 108 in the Senate, and in the 1993 election, although it lost its absolute majority, it obtanied 159 seats in Congress and 177 in the Senate.
www.sispain.org /english/politics/parliame/socialis.html   (399 words)

  
 Election Resources on the Internet: Elections to the Spanish Congress of Deputies
A decisive factor in the election was the split of the center-right electorate between the PP and the PAR, which allowed the Socialists to prevail in all three constituencies.
In the 1993 general election in Madrid, this legal requirement resulted in the exclusion of the Social Democratic Center (CDS) ticket from the constituency apportionment process, as the party - which lost all its seats in the election - fell 438 votes short of the three percent threshold.
This system was drastically altered by the 1982 elections, in which the Socialists, led by Felipe González, won a sweeping victory with 202 seats in Congress, out of 350; AP became the major opposition party, while the UCD collapsed; the PCE also lost considerable ground in the election.
www.electionresources.org /es/index_en.html   (2413 words)

  
 Spanish Participation In the Atlantic Alliance.
The basic sharacteristics of the model for Spanish participation in the Alliance, are contained in the official communications that the Spanish Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Defense sent to their NATO counterparts and to the Secretary- General of the Organization after the referendum.
The complementary characteristics are a consequence of the general Principles of Participation in the Alliance presented by the Spanish Government and approved by the Atlantic Council in May 1986.
The approval of the general directives for the Spanish military contribution to the Atlantic Alliance has undergone a long process since Oct. 1986, when the Spanish memorandum containing the general princxiples was first presented.
www.sispain.org /english/foreign/atlantic.html   (1095 words)

  
 LLRX.com -- ResearchRoundUp - Federal & State Election Resources -- Updated, March 19, 2001
The Elections Division of the Secretary of State has absentee ballot forms, as well as election results, campaign contribution disclosure reports (updated to meet new requirements), forms for voter registration and notices of candidacy, and links to the Federal Election Commission and the State Ethics Commission (which has lists of lobbyists and their expenditures).
The State Board of Elections posts lists of candidates and offices on the ballot as well as statewide and local ballot questions for the current election (which, as of this writing, was the most recent one).
The Elections Division of the Secretary of State has searchable databases of the current calendar, candidates (currently, in the most recent election), political committees (which includes summaries of financial activity), and initiatives, referendums, and referrals.
www.llrx.com /columns/roundup10.htm   (3570 words)

  
 CIA - The World Factbook -- Field Listing - Background   (Site not responding. Last check: )
International observers judged parliamentary elections in 2001 and local elections in 2003 to be acceptable and a step toward democratic development, but identified serious deficiencies.
Presidential elections scheduled for 2005 are unlikely to bring change since the opposition remains weak, divided, and financially dependent on the current regime.
Following the elections of a reformist president and Majlis in the late 1990s, attempts to foster political reform in response to popular dissatisfaction have floundered as conservative politicians have prevented reform measures from being enacted, increased repressive measures, and consolidated their control over the government.
www.phatnav.com /factbook/fields/2028.html   (16146 words)

  
 LLRX.com -- ResearchRoundUp, Federal, State & U.S. Territory Sites with Election Resources, Oct. 16, 2000
The Elections Division of the Secretary of State has the current candidate list and absentee ballot forms, as well as election results, campaign contribution disclosure reports, forms for voter registration and notices of candidacy, and links to the Federal Election Commission and the State Ethics Commission (which has lists of lobbyists and their expenditures).
The Elections Division of the Secretary of State has searchable databases of current candidates (under November 7 General Election), political committees (which includes summaries of financial activity), and initiatives, referendums, and referrals.
The Department of State’s division of Commissions, Elections, and Legislation posts the official list of candidates, election calendars for this year and next, and results of the most recent election, which are retrievable by office or county.
www.llrx.com /columns/roundup5.htm   (3337 words)

  
 FOCUS on SPAIN - General Information
The Canary Islands became part of Spanish territory (1495), the hegemony of Spain in the Mediterranean, to the detriment of France, was affirmed with the conquest of the Kingdom of Naples, and Navarre was incorporated into the Kingdom.
The Spanish State embarked on a period of forty years' brutal dictatorship, during which the political life of the country was characterized by the illegality of all the political parties with the exception of the National Movement.
he subsequent general elections of 1986, 1989 and 1993 were also won by the Spanish Socialist Party and consolidated the the position of the Popular Party, led by Jose Maria Aznar, as the second largest political force in the country.
www.focusmm.com /spain/sp_giamn.htm   (1482 words)

  
 The World Factbook 2004 -- Field Listing - Background
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).
Two multiparty presidential elections since then were widely seen as flawed, but October 2001 legislative and municipal elections were generally free and open.
Elections held in July 2000 marked the first time since the 1910 Mexican Revolution that the opposition defeated the party in government, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).
www.brainyatlas.com /fields/2028.html   (15472 words)

  
 Spanish language
There are a number of Spanish dialects; however, the Castilian dialect was already the accepted standard of the language by the middle of the 13th cent., largely owing to the political importance of Castile.
On the whole, however, the differences between the Spanish dialects of Europe and of Latin America with reference to pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar are relatively minor.
A another peculiarity of Spanish is the use of an inverted question mark (¿) at the beginning of a question and of an inverted exclamation point (¡) at the beginning of an exclamation.
www.infoplease.com /ce6/society/A0846171.html   (581 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / World / Latin America/Caribbean / Guatemalan voters weigh violent crime, a general's past
The soaring crime rate is one of the top campaign issues in presidential elections today, and some voters are advocating a return to heavy-handed government by supporting one of the country's most infamous former dictators.
According to the federal attorney general's office, violent crime killed 8,120 people in 2001 and 8,767 in 2002.
Supporters of retired General Efrain Rios Montt, a distant third in pre-election polls, argue he is the only one who can control this poor Central American nation accustomed more to war than peace.
www.boston.com /news/world/latinamerica/articles/2003/11/09/guatemalan_voters_weigh_violent_crime_a_generals_past   (490 words)

  
 Spain   (Site not responding. Last check: )
With the approval of the Spanish Constitution of 1978 and the arrival of democracy, the old historic nationalities — Basque Country, Catalonia, Andalusia and Galicia — were given far-reaching autonomy, which was then soon extended to all Spanish regions, resulting in one of the most decentralized territorial organizations in Western Europe.
Morocco claims the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla and the uninhabited Vélez, Alhucemas, Chafarinas, and Perejil ("Parsley") islands, all on the northern coast of Africa.
During the Second Spanish Republic (1931-1936), the Basque and Catalan were given limited self-government, which was lost after the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and restored in 1978 during the transition to democracy.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/S/Spain.htm   (3769 words)

  
 Handbook of Texas Online: WICHITA COUNTY
The area that became Wichita County was home for Caddoan Indians, principally the Wichitas and Taovayas, who migrated to the area from present Kansas and Nebraska, in the middle of the eighteenth century.
While the number of farms continued to decrease, as it had since 1940, the aggregate value of these farms surpassed $172 million by the early 1980s, and then fell slightly by the end of the decade.
College of Liberal Arts and the General Libraries at the University of Texas at Austin.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/WW/hcw8.html   (2350 words)

  
 The 1980's   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In 1982, General Angel Anibal Guevara won the presidential election through electoral fraud, which was the usual method of election to the highest office in Guatemala.
To this end, he decreed in 1982, that a state of siege existed in Guatemala and used this decree to centralize the government under the power of the Executive by granting himself extraordinary powers, abrogating the constitution, and dissolving the legislature (Sante 37).
The elections were held at the end of 1985 and the president elect Vinicio Cerezo became president on January 14, 1986.
www.spanish.sbc.edu /MMGuatemala/The80's.html   (2029 words)

  
 Right-wing victory in Spanish general election
The PSOE general secretary implied that the voters were to blame for his party's disastrous performance.
It was a development of the pro-business policies that opened the door to the PP in 1996: deregulation of the labour market, incentives to foreign investors, privatisations and cuts in welfare, as well as tax cuts for the rich and casualisation of jobs for working people.
The poverty rate of Spanish households stands at 17.5 percent, with single women or households with women as the major breadwinner the worst affected.
www.wsws.org /articles/2000/mar2000/spai-m17_prn.shtml   (1575 words)

  
 List of election results - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
This is a list of election results from around the world.
There is also a list of political parties and a list of politics by country.
UK Regional and local elections (including Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales)
encyclopedia.learnthis.info /l/li/list_of_election_results.html   (330 words)

  
 Timeline 1200 to 1299
It was a mystical interpretation of the Torah disguised as a novel.
1246 The Spanish island of Mallorca was occupied by the Arabs and reconquered by the Catalans 750 years ago.
Generally regarded as the founder of the Ottoman Turkish state, Osman I (also known as Osman Gazi) led ongoing campaigns against the Byzantines in the 13th and early 14th centuries AD.
timelines.ws /1200_1299.HTML   (10351 words)

  
 Reasons To Believe: Facts For Faith Issue 10, 2002
In light of general revelation, commitment to the one true God and to the unique veracity of Christianity does not imply that all features of other religions are false.
General revelation explains the powerful phenomenon of spirituality and illuminates why many of the world’s religions agree in some specific areas, particularly concerning core ethical issues.
The general consensus among Protestant evangelicals holds that general revelation in and of itself cannot release a person from sin’s grip, though it does reveal and condemn unbelief.
www.reasons.org /resources/fff/2002issue10/index.shtml   (17268 words)

  
 Spain Growth of the PSOE and the 1982 Elections - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current ...
These developments in turn led to a series of election defeats in 1981 and 1982, and by the time a general election was called in August for October 1982, the UCD's representation in the Cortes was down by one-third.
When Spaniards went to the polls in record numbers in October 1982, they gave a sweeping victory to the PSOE, which received the largest plurality (48.4 percent) in the post-1977 period.
The most significant implication of the October elections for the future of democracy in Spain was the transfer of power from one party to another without military intervention or bloodshed.
workmall.com /wfb2001/spain/spain_history_growth_of_the_psoe_and_the_1982_elections.html   (459 words)

  
 Falklands Corruption. Falkland Islands Government guilty in Supreme Court for Human Rights Abuse
In 1811 the Spanish settlers on the Falklands were withdrawn to reinforce Spanish troops exiled in Uruguay, in an attempt to resist the independence movement of Buenos Aires.
The Spanish forces were finally defeated in 1814, and the United Provinces of the River Plate (subsequently known as Argentina) declared independence from Spain.
Mike Bingham was still unconvinced that the Governor and Attorney General were not involved, so he wrote to several newspapers stating that despite having never been arrested for anything in his entire life, that he feared his property was about to be searched in an attempt to frame him.
www.falklands.net /FalklandsCorruption.shtml   (5943 words)

  
 No Quarters: 08/01/2004 - 08/31/2004
Elections Canada; Irena Hadziabdic, Executive Director, Association of Election Officials in Bosnia and Herzegovania; John Hartland, Paris University 2- Centre for the Comparative Study of Elections (United Kingdom); Owen Thomas, Executive Reform Ballot services (U.K.); Linda Edgeworth, independent election expert (U.S.); and Andrew Bruce, ODIHR Election Adviser (U.K.).
The election observers this year is in question, not if they will observe, but the number.
With the information that the state department has invited observers from a foreign group to be here for the 2004 elections may be a flash in the pan.
noquarters.blogspot.com /2004_08_01_noquarters_archive.html   (12185 words)

  
 Texas State Library Publications List
Due to poor quality of original documents, some of the microfilm reels may be difficult to read.
Selected records of Spanish and Mexican colonial government in East Texas.
General information flyer produced by National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped.
www.tsl.state.tx.us /pubs/tslpublist.html   (1232 words)

  
 CCRI
My general conclusion is that the CCRI has a dramatic impact within its scope of operation, but this scope covers only a limited, well-defined area of government action.
On the other hand, normal children are generally considered more malleable in their beliefs and attitudes than are adults; moreover, changing their attitudes--educating them to behave properly around the opposite sex--is especially necessary.
The general premise of antidiscrimination law is that the chips should fall where they may, even if this disproportionately favors the big or the strong.
www.law.ucla.edu /volokh/ccri.htm   (16050 words)

  
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Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on an assembly mission to the International Space Station carrying the first Japanese component and Canada\'s Dextre.
Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero of the Socialist Workers\' Party is re-elected.
NASA announces evidence of rings around the Saturnian moon Rhea, which would be the first known rings around a moon.
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 Library of Congress / Federal Research Division / Country Studies / Area Handbook Series/ Spain / Bibliography
Penniman, Howard R., and Mujal-Leon, Eusebio M. Spain at the Polls, 1977, 1979, and 1982: A Study of the National Election.
Douglass, William A. Death in Murelaga: Funerary Ritual in a Spanish Basque Village.
Penniman, Howard R., and Eusebio M. Mujal-Leon (eds.), Spain at the Polls, 1977, 1979, and 1982: A Study of the National Elections.
memory.loc.gov /frd/cs/spain/es_bibl.html   (6008 words)

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