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 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.

The NAR began to break down when the Indian component withdrew in 1988.

At the Ronald Reagan / Mikhail Gorbachev summit in Moscow ( 29 May – 1 June 1988 ) between leaders of the United States and the Soviet Union, it was decided that Cuban troops would be withdrawn from Angola, and Soviet military aid would cease, as soon as South Africa withdrew from Namibia.

Public suspicions that the council might provide former President Chun with a power base within the Sixth Republic were rendered moot when Chun withdrew to an isolated Buddhist temple in self-imposed exile in November 1988.

The USSR discovered the bitter truth for its 1979 misadventure in Afghanistan as the British found that out in the 19th Century, and withdrew its last troops in 1988 from the so known " graveyard of empires "-Afghanistan.

After experiencing further pain at the next hole, Norman withdrew from the tournament and the following month also withdrew from the 1988 Open Championship at Royal Lytham & St Annes.

Following the death of his wife in 1988, Schneerson withdrew from some public functions.

This was classed as a breach of the Cypriot rules of selecting their entry at this time ( and an infringement of the Eurovision rules ) and so Cyprus withdrew from the 1988 contest.

In response, Grove City College withdrew from the Stafford loan program entirely beginning with the 1988 – 89 academic year, and established its own loan program with PNC Bank.

Trinidad and Tobago returned to the Games for the first time since 1988. Andorra make a début in the Summer Paralympics, despite the fact wich has send a team three times for the Winter Paralympics. Malawi, which would have been making its debut at the Games, and Botswana, were both due to send delegations but withdrew hours before the opening ceremony citing a lack of government funds.

In 1988, all these publishers followed Iwanami and withdrew their books from the market altogether.

Treen withdrew his name from consideration in late April 1988, saying that he " could not afford to defer my professional and business activities " any longer, and that " some persons on the Democrat-controlled committee would just as soon see the vacancy go unfilled until after the election .... in the hope that a Democrat will succeed to the White House.

John Larroquette won four consecutive Emmys for best supporting actor in a comedy series from 1985 to 1988, before he withdrew his name from the ballot in 1989.

Prior to this, the League of Women Voters moderated the 1976, 1980, 1984 debates before it withdrew from the position as debate moderator with this statement after the 1988 Presidential debates: " the demands of the two campaign organizations would perpetrate a fraud on the American voter.

In 1988, the League of Women Voters withdrew its sponsorship of the presidential debates after the George H. W.

In 1982, STC withdrew from System X and, in 1988, the telecommunications divisions of GEC & Plessey merged to form GPT, with Plessey subsequently being bought out by GEC & Siemens.

In his last years in politics he became a staunch critic of the Zapatista rebellion in Chiapas and, crucially, voluntarily withdrew from the presidential race in 1988 to support the unified candidacy of Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas.

He attempted a comeback in 1988 before NASCAR banned him for testing positive for a banned substance ; after NASCAR insisted on access to his entire medical record before reinstating him, Richmond withdrew from racing.

In 1988, the series ended when Paramount withdrew its license at the advice of Richard Arnold following a series of disputes between Arnold and DC Comics, specifically with the comic's main author, Peter David.

Nashville independent label Step One signed him in 1988 where he recorded into the early 1990s ( including a duet album with Ray Price ), then withdrew from public view.

The AELC formed when approximately 250 dissident congregations withdrew from the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod ( LCMS ) in 1976, and ended as an independent body when it became part of the new Evangelical Lutheran Church in America ( ELCA ) on January 1, 1988.

In the 1988 federal election, there was no Liberal candidate on the ballot because two days after nominations were due, the Liberal candidate, Emmanuel Feuerwerker, withdrew citing heart problems after the news media reported that Mr. Feuerwerker's campaign literature claimed university degrees that he did not, in fact, possess.

After the Kuwait Investment Authority withdrew from a planned offer to purchase the airline, Spantax ceased all operations on 29 March 1988, leaving some 7, 000 passengers around Europe stranded.

The Kansas City promotion withdrew from NWA in 1987 and closed in 1988.