was unable to obtain adequate financial support. Although its achievements were not so inconsiderable as has been commonly thought, Congress was, on the whole, impotent, and federal authority was too weak to be of consequence. The central government also was unable to require fulfillment of any ...
According to the Dutch-Indonesian agreement, the referendum conducted by Indonesia in August 1969 definitively resolved the incorporation of West Irian into the Republic of Indonesia. The struggle for West Irian corresponded to the national aspirations of the Indonesian people, but it was also used ...
The new constitution that was then hastily finalized by the Islamist-dominated constitutional assembly, presented to the president, and scheduled for a referendum, before the Supreme Constitutional Court could rule on the constitutionality of the assembly. PROFILE: Who is MB leader Mohamed Morsi He ...
Sally Jenkins– So many of my friends dropped their Washington Post subscriptions after Jeff Bezos’s non-endorsement for president. While understanding the impulse, I insisted that, however exasperating the Post’s direction on this and other matters, there were still people working there who neede...
To top it off, his elevation was confirmed after a nationwide referendum pitted him as the only candidate. Image: Bashar al Assad at military training games in 2000. Pic: AP Hopes for a young reformer Assad began his presidency with promises to fight corruption and to open up the media. ...
and its structure has been improved. In 1967, political directorates were created in the armed services, and political sections in a number of combat arms. This makes it possible to carry on political work with due regard to the specific features of the troops and fleets. In all stages of...
[26] The group’s first order of business was organizing a petition drive for a state referendum granting women the vote. A forceful and persuasive writer, Abigail, took to the newspapers to make her case. Sarah Myers Latimer, founding vice-president, California Woman Suffrage Association (Pet...
(countries) for the last 17 months of World War I End of World War I Poland, Ukraine, and Belarus declared their independence from Russia Treaty of Versailles redrew European borders League of Nations founded in Paris Greece restores its monarchy after a referendum International Court of Justice ...
Following a referendum to abolish the monarchy on December 8, 1974, Greece transitioned back to a republic, and a new constitution was drafted by the Fifth Revisionary Parliament and came into effect on June 11, 1975. This constitution remains in effect as revised in 1986 and 2001. ...
‘Kaduna State’ was formerly created by the then military leader, Gen. Murtala Mohammed, with all distinct identities amalgamated into one state without a referendum. The state hence is the successor of the old Northern Region of Nigeria, which had its capital at Kaduna which is now the ...