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Christian Coalition
Christian Coalition organization founded to advance the agenda of political and social conservatives, mostly comprised of evangelical Protestant Republicans, and to preserve what it deems traditional American values. It was established (1989) by Pat Robertson after he failed to win the 1988... Read more |
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Allied Coalition
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Coalition of Labor Union Women
COALITION OF LABOR UNION WOMEN COALITION OF LABOR UNION WOMEN (CLUW). Over three thousand women from fifty-eight unions formed the Coalition of Labor Union Women in Chicago on 23 March 1974. The coalition was founded by Olga M. Madar, the first woman to be international vice president of the... Read more |
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Petrus Josef Sietse De Jong
Petrus Josef Sietse De Jong , 1915-, Dutch naval officer and politician. Having entered the royal navy in 1931, he served as a submarine commander in World War II and rose in the navy after the war. He was state secretary for defense (1959-63) and then headed the ministry of defense (1963-67). A... Read more |
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Central Powers
Central Powers in World War I , the coalition of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire.... Read more |
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RainbowPUSH Coalition
RAINBOW COALITION RAINBOW COALITION. The Rainbow Coalition was a group developed within the Democratic Party during the 1984 presidential election. Led by the African American civil rights activist Jesse Jackson, it attracted blacks, Latinos, Asian Americans, American Indians, and poor whites. As... Read more |
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Sirimavo Bandaranaike
Sirimavo Bandaranaike , 1916-2000, Sri Lankan political leader, b. Sirimavo Ratwatte. She and her husband, S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike , converted to Buddhism from Christianity before he became prime minister of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in 1956. After his assassination (1959), she became the first woman... Read more |
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Hans Dietrich Genscher
Hans Dietrich Genscher , 1927-, German politician; foreign minister (1974-92). A Liberal party member in East Germany, he left the East in 1952, joining the Free Democrats (FDP) in West Germany. Elected to the Bundestag (1965), he became the party's chairman (1974), and led it into a coalition... Read more |
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Green party
Green party any of the political parties established in various countries to oppose the destructive environmental effects of many modern technologies and the economic systems and institutions that drive them. Many Green parties also advocate pacifism and strongly support human rights ; the... Read more |
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Jesse Louis Jackson
Jesse Louis Jackson 1941-, African-American political leader, clergyman, and civil-rights activist, b. Greenville, S.C. Raised in poverty, he attended the Chicago Theological Seminary (1963-65) and was ordained a Baptist minister in 1968. Active in the civil-rights movement, he became a close... Read more |
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CHRISTIAN COALITION JUST ANOTHER LOBBY
...Christian Coalition's "Contract...cover shot of Ralph Reed, the coalition...values," the Christian Coalition...namely, that Christians and non...only that Christians cover ... |
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Huntsman departs race, impact in SC unclear
...unanimous, choice of a group of national Christian political activists who met over the...before the election," Dawson said.And Ralph Reed, founder of the national Faith and Freedom Coalition, also said he knew of no effort by the... |