This led the government to propose reconstruction of the Armenian Atomic Power Station at Metsamor, which was closed after the 1988 earthquake because of its location in an earthquake-prone area and which had the same safety problems as reactors listed as dangerous in Bulgaria, Russia, and Slovakia.

However, its decisions can be overruled by the Australian Governor-General ( effectively by the national government ) under section 35 of the Australian Capital Territory ( Self-Government ) Act 1988.

During the final year of communist Hungary in the late 1980s, the Hungarian government, along with his two sons, Béla III and Péter, requested that his remains be exhumed and transferred back to Budapest for burial, where Hungary arranged a state funeral for him on July 7, 1988.

British Steel was privatised in 1988 by the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher.

There were isolated protests among the population against the draft implemented by the Sandinista government, which even resulted in full-blown street clashes in Masaya in 1988.

While the CIA and MI6 and the People's Liberation Army of China financed the operation along with the Pakistan government against the Soviet Union Eventually the Soviet Union began looking for a withdrawal route and in 1988 Geneva Accords were signed between Communist-Afghanistan and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ; under the terms Soviet troops were to withdraw.

In June 1988, at the CPSU's Nineteenth Party Conference, Gorbachev launched radical reforms meant to reduce party control of the government apparatus.

One instance occurred in February 1988, when the government in Nagorno-Karabakh, a predominantly ethnic Armenian region in the Azerbaijan SSR, passed a resolution calling for unification with the Armenian SSR.

After the death of Abuna Takla Haymanot in 1988, Abune Merkorios who had close ties to the Derg ( Communist ) government was elected Patriarch of Ethiopia.

Since 1988, Danish defence budgets and security policy have been set by multi-year agreements supported by a wide parliamentary majority including government and opposition parties.

* 1988 – Benazir Bhutto is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head the government of an Islam-dominated state.

From 1986 to early 1988 Haiti was ruled by a provisional military government under General Namphy.

In 1988 the government withdrew further funding, the project was approaching the end of its design phase but the plans were still speculative and dogged with aerodynamic problems and operational disadvantages.

In addition, as of early 1988 the government had lost control of several mountainous districts in Kurdistan where, since 1983, dissident Kurds have cooperated militarily with Iran.

On November 3, 1988, Sri Lankan Tamil mercenaries tried to overthrow the Maldivian government.

In 1988, the Israeli government banned Kach as " racist " and " undemocratic " under the terms of an ad hoc law.

* 1988 – Sri Lankan Tamil mercenaries try to overthrow the Maldivian government.

Rafael Hernández Colón became the head of government for the second time in 1984, was reelected in 1988 and remained in power until 1992.

In June 1988, at the CPSU's Nineteenth Party Conference, the first held since 1941, Gorbachev and his supporters launched radical reforms meant to reduce party control of the government apparatus.

Although the 1988 elections produced another national unity government, Shamir was able to take the role alone.

According to government statistics, the population of Seoul, one of the world's largest cities, surpassed 10 million people in late 1988.

Here he was able to witness from the inside the collapse of the Labor government following the economic and budgetary crisis which began in 1988.

He suppressed several movements, particularly Shi ' a and Kurdish movements seeking to overthrow the government or gain independence, respectively, and maintained power during the Iran – Iraq War of 1980 through 1988.

In the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988, the United States government designated the metric system of measurement as " the preferred system of weights and measures for U. S. trade and commerce ".

** In Omaha, Nebraska, in the only vice presidential debate of the 1988 U. S. presidential election, the Republican vice presidential nominee, Senator Dan Quayle of Indiana, insists he has as much experience in government as John F. Kennedy did when he sought the presidency in 1960.

Senator John Kerry's 1988 Committee on Foreign Relations report on Contra drug links concluded that " senior U. S. policy makers were not immune to the idea that drug money was a perfect solution to the Contras ' funding problems.

In 1988, the US National Research Council concluded that it "... finds no scientific justification from research conducted over a period of 130 years, for the existence of parapsychological phenomena.

The limited form of this representation was explained in a 1988 Constitutional Commission report which concluded " the Governor-General is in no sense a delegate of the Queen.

The shroud's origins are still a matter of controversy, but in 1988, a carbon dating analysis concluded that the shroud was made between 1260 and 1390, a span that includes the last half-century of the Templars ' existence.

Category: Treaties concluded in 1988

However, a 1988 article by Brian Martin in Science and Public Policy states that although their paper concluded the effects would be less severe than originally thought, with the authors describing these effects as a " nuclear autumn ", other statements by Thompson and Schneider show that they " resisted the interpretation that this means a rejection of the basic points made about nuclear winter ".

In 1988, the U. S. National Academy of Sciences published a report on the subject that concluded that " no scientific justification from research conducted over a period of 130 years for the existence of parapsychological phenomena.

Senator John Kerry's 1988 U. S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations report on links between the Contras and drug imports to the US concluded that " senior U. S. policy makers were not immune to the idea that drug money was a perfect solution to the Contras ' funding problems.

In 1988 the U. S. National Academy of Sciences gave a report on the subject and concluded there is " no scientific justification from research conducted over a period of 130 years for the existence of parapsychological phenomena.

The 1988 Senate Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and International Operations concluded that " The saga of Panama's General Manuel Antonio Noriega represents one of the most serious foreign policy failures for the United States.

This two year undercover operation concluded in 1988 with a fake wedding that was attended by BCCI officers and drug dealers from around the world who had established a personal friendship and working relationship with undercover agent Mazur.

* Shodoshima, Kagawa, Japan-Sister city agreement concluded in 1988 ( with former Uchinomi town )

In 1988, the Asamblea por los Derechos Humanos ( APDH or Assembly for Human Rights ) published its findings on the disappearances and concluded that 12, 261 people were killed or disappeared during the Dirty War.

The original wording contained in Public Law 99-145 only authorized the POW Medal for service members held captive “ while engaged in an action against an enemy of the United States ; while engaged in military operations involving conflict with an opposing foreign force ; or while serving with friendly forces engaged in an armed conflict against an opposing armed force in which the United States is not a belligerent party .” Accordingly, DoD policy articulated in 1988 concluded that only military captives taken prisoner by enemy or opposing states during active armed conflict were eligible for the award.

Interim DoD policy articulated in 1988 concluded that only military captives taken prisoner by enemy states during active armed conflict were eligible for the award.

Category: Treaties concluded in 1988

In June 1988, the president concluded a peace agreement with Uganda People's Democratic Army ( UPDA ) commander Lieutenant Colonel John Angelo Okello.

In 1988, Loring and Powell gave 290 psychiatrists a transcript of a patient interview and told half of them that the patient was black and the other half white ; they concluded of the results that " Clinicians appear to ascribe violence, suspiciousness, and dangerousness to black clients even though the case studies are the same as the case studies for the white clients.

Charles E. Redman, Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, said in January 1988 that the incident was an " act of mass murder ," adding that the administration had " concluded that the evidence of North Korean culpability is compelling.

After 68 orbits of the earth in 105 hours, 6 minutes, 19 seconds, the mission concluded with a dry lakebed landing on Runway 17 at Edwards Air Force Base, California, on December 6, 1988.

After publishing the results of his research in 1988, Yeakley reflected on developments within the ICOC and concluded that " erhaps the most important development in the year since this book was written is that counselors in virtually every city where this radical movement exists are now being flooded with clients who are the psychological, emotional, and spiritual victims of this authoritarian movement.

After 68 orbits of the earth, the mission concluded with a dry lakebed landing on Runway 17 at Edwards Air Force Base, California, on December 6, 1988.

** Saint-Valentin, France-Sister city agreement concluded in April 6, 1988

After 68 orbits of the Earth the mission concluded with a dry lakebed landing on Runway 17 at Edwards Air Force Base on December 6, 1988.