13,787 source-backed politics facts - each attributed to a named person and a number, linked to the original source. Page 138 of 138.
“One of the reasons the last government was so deservedly punished in May 1997”
“As a leading campaigner for improved services, Lady Carol Kidu outpolled 25 other candidates in the seat of Port Moresby’s south, in Hare Village, to become the first woman MP in PNG Parliament since 1982.”
“The fifth and final in our series of panel discussions on race elations in the United States.”
“the release into exile of China’s two most famous dissidents, Wei Jingsheng and Wang Dan.”
“Her election victory came after four days of counting.”
“discussion with eight students who attend Washington, D.C.-area niversities.”
“Xu and his colleagues in the nascent Democratic Party, Wang Youcai and Qin Yongmin, now face charges of treason.”
“Kidu was the only female Member of Parliament in the 2002–2007 and 2007–2012 National Parliaments, and served as Minister for Community Development under Prime Minister Sir Michael Somare from 2002 until 2 August 2011, and as Opposition Le…”
“1996 will be his last lection”
“Wei had been released and flown to the US on 16 November.”
“Lady Kidu's late husband, Sir Buri Kidu, was PNG's highly regarded Chief Justice for 13 years.”
“Governor Pataki alleged that Feltsman's salary of $101,000 a year as Professor of Music at New Paltz College was "wrong, absolutely wrong."”
“the leader who announced martial law in Tiananmen Square on 20 May 1989.”
“On 14 June 1995, after a 4-year moratorium, newly-elected President Jacques Chirac announced that France would resume the testing of nuclear weapons in the Pacific at Mururoa Atoll.”
“WERTHEIMER stepped down earlier this year after 14 years as President”
“Li Peng, until recently China’s premier and the leader who announced martial law in Tiananmen Square on 20 May 1989, declared that no political party would be allowed to exist which opposes the basic policies of the Communist Party or its …”
“More than 90 politicians from 9 national governments, including 30 Australian politicians, united with Tahitians to call for an end to French nuclear testing.”
“was president of AMERICAN PEN from 1984 to 1986.”
“Now the fundamentalists want the Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which leads India’s current government, to develop Hindutva… says Prafull Goradia, a BJP member of the Rajya Sabha (the upper house of India’s parliament).”
“Shawn Dorney reports that the PNG government has adopted a three pronged approach”
“was in Congress for twelve years”
“we eventually must go to qualified majority voting on the sensitive issue of taxes. I believe the unanimity rule cannot be maintained.”
“the Papua New Guinea government has approved a comprehensive two year assistance and training package for the National Broadcasting Commission valued at more than $1 million.”
“PENNY's new book is Common Cents (Little, Brown & Co.) which he wrote with journalist Major Garrett”
“campaign for stronger co-ordination in economic policy, particularly in the framework of the 11 euro-countries, for rapid progress in the harmonisation of taxes and for the formation of a real European social model”
“it's more or less a campaign aimed at preserving the press freedom we have been having for the past five, six years.”
“PENNY is now spokesperson for the Concord Coalition”
“is simply not going to happen”
“There have in the past been vague threats... nothing in the last two years though.”
“a bipartisan coalition that promotes fiscal responsibility and deficit reduction”
“a French plan that the chairman of the euro-11 should be represented in international institutions such as G7 and the IMF”
“Senior NBC executives were called before cabinet and told the mini budget would be put off for a week and the loss of revenue deducted from the NBC.”
“Ever since the 1990 invasion of Kuwait, Iraq has been barred from selling its oil on the world market.”
“The New European Way”
“We've got two morning papers, we've got two weekly newspapers”
“first one-hundred days of the 104th ongress”
“Germany and France, with most of the other 11 euro-members, want to go beyond that”
“The Post Courier, which now has about 30% local ownership”
“nearly ten years ago”
“A Strategy for Solidarity”
“I've been the editor now for about eight years”
“1994's midterm Republican landslide”
“Demos is seeking a new director to replace Geoff Mulgan, who resigned in October to spend more time with the No 10 Policy Unit.”
“arrived in Papua New Guinea about four years ago”
“top four floors”
“Early applicants received a quickie interview, taking less time than it would to hire a new secretary. A shortlist of three was drawn up. Then nothing for a month. Candidates waited for the second round. It never came. In October Matthew T…”
“receives about $7 million a year in funding”
“It's been almost six years since the Ayatollah Khomeini issued a death sentence against writer SALMAN RUSHDIE.”
“In October Matthew Taylor was anointed.”
“Now aged in his 50s and based in Apia”
“Terry also talked with RUSHDIE in 1990 and 1992.”
“The Foreign Policy Centre appointed 24-year-old Mark (“Cool Britannia”) Leonard, formerly a Demos wunderkind, only after a trawl through the foreign policy community had failed.”
“then a 2 hour paddle in an outrigger canoe”
“The five-part series documents President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty”
“Demos hopes to appoint someone by Christmas.”
“which will be used to race the following year during Western Samoan independence celebrations”
“which he declared during his State of the Union Address in January 1964.”
“Michael Jacobs argues that “influence cannot be the criterion for how you choose what work you do”. Jacobs, an environmental economist who landed the post last year after fighting off younger, newer Labour contenders, is some way from bein…”
“He was LBJ's assistant for domestic affairs from 1959-65”
“such as Tom Bentley, a 25-year-old researcher, Helen Wilkinson and Ian Christie, the current deputy director.”
“Secretary for Health, Education and Welfare under Jimmy Carter from 1977-79”
“Now the fundamentalists want the Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which leads India’s current government”
“Right through the Mogul invasions to the British time in the 19th century, Hindu civilisation was stunned and traumatised. Hence the lack of activity and ambition”
“extend administrative detention by some 400 places”
“800 asylum‑seekers detained in the UK at any one time”
“Campsfield holds 200”
“the first two months, but broke down in the third or fourth”
“a year or more”
“nine West Africans who appeared in Oxford Crown Court in July on charges of riot, which carries a ten-year maximum penalty”
“after a total of 18 months in detention”
“Two years later, he has received no satisfactory explanation from the Immigration Service”
“More than one detainee reports being asked for a guarantee of payment before the (part-time) GP would agree to make a specialist referral”
“A month later, he won his appeal against the refusal of his asylum claim, and was released”
“as requested last April by the chief inspector, Sir David Ramsbotham, in his report on Campsfield”
“the Guardian is the main means of written communication about Labour news and views to Labour’s 400,000 members.”
“Take a region like Yorkshire with a theoretical 1.4 million votes and seven MEPs.”
“Let’s assume Labour gets 800,000 votes, the Conservatives 400,000 and the Lib Dems get 200,000.”
“Four Labour MEPs, two Tory MEPs and one Lib Dem MEP go to Strasbourg.”
“Each Labour MEP will have got approximately 120,000 votes, each Tory 60,000 and each Lib Dem 35,000 votes.”
“the fields of policy, education, communication and research which has to go on in the 50 or 60 months between major elections.”
“Community, he argued in Conditions of Freedom (1950), was prior to politics because “a democratic polity is possible only for a human community which has established a common way of life upon a basis of mutual trust”.”
“Yet Charter 88 is steadily growing, and has now won over 80,000 signatories. Their donations pay for all its core work, making it one of the few major pressure groups that is truly independent of government or charitable funding.”
“nine out of ten people in Britain and western Europe want more of it.”
“As Gordon Brown said at a post-election Charter 88 conference, “Britain needs a modern constitution . . . based on clear rules.””
“Olive Sharples, Weavers’ Union organiser for 44 years, remembers visiting the sick”
“The NP came to power in 1948”
“at least 50 per cent of the SABC radio news is made up of BBC items”
