Word: reformists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...audio, of Luzhkov ordering the murder of a business rival. No tape ever surfaced, but the prospect of a brutal war of charge and countercharge reinforced the urgings of some of the mayor's advisers: forget about the presidency, back someone else and position yourself to be the great reformist Prime Minister of the new millennium...
...Iran's reformist president...
...more critically, Nouri will then be disqualified from heading the reform ticket in next February's elections, thus ending any chance of his becoming the powerful speaker of Iran's 270-seat parliament, the Majlis-e-Shura. A victory by Nouri is crucial to his chief ally, the embattled reformist President of Iran, Mohammed Khatami, and his efforts to promote moderation, expand freedom and normalize Iran's relations with the outside world. "The court is trying to get rid of me," Nouri told TIME last week. "But the trial is really a trial of the reform movement...
...vote in June's national elections. But subsequently the former housewife failed to reach out to other parties to guarantee herself a majority in the assembly. Muslim parties began to rail against the prospect of having a female President. Wahid and Megawati had been very close in the reformist campaign last year, but even he came to resent her aloofness after the June polls: a mobile phone he carried whose number only she knew "rarely rang," according to one of his aides...
...would face retaliation. "But," says TIME Middle East bureau chief Scott Macleod, "the attack occurred before the election of President Khatami, who has clearly demonstrated a commitment to end state terrorism and normalize Iran?s relations with the rest of the world. Given Washington?s desire to strengthen his reformist government against its hard-line opponents, the U.S. would be unlikely to take military action against Iran unless there were fresh acts of terrorism." Better that the unfettered and somewhat crude Saudi legal system handle the matter than risk upsetting a relatively docile Iran...