__NOTOC__The current Political Constitution of the Republic of Chile, approved by Chilean voters in a controversial and tightly controlled plebiscite on September 11, 1980, under the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, partially effective March 11, 1981, fully effective 11 March 1990 and amended considerably on August 17, 1989 ( via referendum ) and on September 22, 2005 ( legislatively ), and also in 1991, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010, replaced the earlier constitution of 1925.

Five deleted scenes, a total of 13 minutes, including the controversial " Otto ", were first made available in 1997 on the Criterion Collection Laserdisc.

Later the army was also involved in the controversial Sandline affair of 1997, when the PNGDF Commander — Jerry Singirok — blocked the use of mercenaries to destroy the revolt on Bougainville.

1997 ended with McMahon facing real life controversy resulting in major ratings and financial losses after becoming widely despised by his employees, wrestling critics, and wrestling fans following Bret Hart's controversial departure from the WWF, later known as the Montreal Screwjob.

Since the creation of the first DNSBL in 1997, the operation and policies of these lists have been frequently controversial, both in Internet advocacy and occasionally in lawsuits.

On July 1, 1997, he began a controversial " spray paint shame campaign ” in an effort to stop drug use.

Albert Wohlstetter ( December 19, 1913 – January 10, 1997 ) was an influential and controversial nuclear strategist during the Cold War.

She later temporarily resigned from the Academy, following the broadcast of a BBC Omnibus television documentary about the preparations for the controversial Sensation exhibition hosted by the Academy in 1997 show-casing the Young British Artists.

However, these attempts to restore the Reform Party's image as a tolerant political party were damaged in the 1997 federal election when the Reform Party released a controversial television advertisement where the faces of four Quebec politicians: Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, Bloc Québécois leader Gilles Duceppe, Progressive Conservative leader Jean Charest, and the separatist Premier of Quebec Lucien Bouchard were crossed out followed by a message saying that Quebec politicians had dominated the federal government for too long and that the Reform Party would end this favouritism towards Quebec.

From 1996 to the 1997 election, the party's executive tried to refurbish the party's image and shed its controversial past.

While controversial, it was previously entered into the 1997 Japan Grand Prix Horror Novel competition but was eventually rejected in the final round due to its content, the novel became a surprise bestseller.

The issue was so controversial and divisive that in August 1997, Maricopa County Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox was shot and injured while leaving a county board meeting by Larry Naman, a homeless man, who attempted to argue in court that her support for the tax justified his attack.

In 1997, Insomniac Press published her controversial book on the Canadian criminal Paul Bernardo, ' Paul's Case: The Kingston Letters.

During the mid 1990s, from around 1993 through to 1997, along with the Green Anarchist magazine itself, Booth's work came under attack from the Neoist Alliance, particularly over the controversial ' Irrationalists ' article, which attempted to see inside the minds of " irrationalist " terrorists.

The Australosphenida hypothesis remains controversial, and some taxonomists ( e. g. McKenna & Bell 1997 ) prefer to maintain the name Prototheria as a fitting contrast to the other group of living mammals, the Theria.

The Rights of the Terminally Ill Act 1995 ( NT ) was a controversial law legalising euthanasia passed by Australia's Northern Territory in 1995 and, for all practical purposes, nullified in 1997 by the federal Parliament.

From 1995 to 1997 through the controversial loans-for-shares privatisation auctions ( see Privatisation in Russia ), Berezovsky and Patarkatsishvili assisted Roman Abramovich in acquiring control of Sibneft, the sixth-largest Russian oil company, which constituted the bulk of his wealth.

Another controversial decision of his government was its recommendation of President's rule in Uttar Pradesh, following unruly scenes in the state assembly on 21 October 1997.

The race course is a prime destination for Formula One teams who wish to perform off-season testing ; it also hosted the highly controversial 1997 European Grand Prix.

In the run-up to 1997, with widespread sentiment of uncertainty then towards the future of Hong Kong under Chinese rule, the party supported the controversial package of political reform bought about by the last British colonial Hong Kong Governor, Chris Patten.

She was featured in Marked for Death ( 1990 ) as an expert on Jamaican voodoo and gangs ; in the Italian erotic thriller Husbands and Lovers ( 1992 ) as a free spirited adultress ( which featured a rather controversial bare-bottom spanking scene, a first in a mainstream film ); Tombstone ( 1993 ) as Doc Holliday's lover, Kate ( also known as Big Nose Kate and Mary Catherine Haroney, born November 7, 1850 ); in The Haunted Sea ( 1997 ); and in the film Virus ( 1999 ), playing a Russian scientist.

Fung's most controversial move among the democratic camp was his acceptance to join the Provisional Legco, set up by the PRC Government to replace Legco temporarily upon reunification in 1997, after the failure of the Chinese and British sides to agree on a smooth transition of the political system.

Following his 1997 Election to the House of Commons, he courted controversy in 2001 by offering support for John Townend over his controversial remarks about race ; he later apologised for any offence caused by offering this support.

On 6 February 1998 in a controversial speech at the Tate Gallery ( now Tate Britain ) he disparaged the 1997 intake of female Labour MPs as " Stepford Wives … who've had the chip inserted into their brain to keep them on message and who collectively put down women and children in the vote on lone parent benefits " — in the previous month benefits had been reduced for this group of ( mainly ) women.

He became internationally known for his best-selling and controversial book The Skeptical Environmentalist ( 2001 ).

While Eddy's Manual established limited executive functions under the rule of law in place of a traditional hierarchy, the controversial 1991 publication of a book by Bliss Knapp led the then Board of Directors to make the unusual affidavit during a suit over Knapp's estate that neither acts by it violating the Manual, nor acts refraining from required action, constituted violations of the Manual.

The controversial book " The Education of Christian Women " by Juan Luis Vives, which claimed women have the right to an education, was dedicated to and commissioned by her.

Perhaps the best example of a film that straddles the line between his works of personal chaos and psychological confusion is Cronenberg's " adaptation " of his literary hero William S. Burroughs ' most controversial book, Naked Lunch.

The book was controversial in Grand Junction and many people were unhappy with his portrayal.

As for why the book was created, a theory which has gained considerable interest, although still controversial is " Persian imperial authorisation ".

In 1983, British journalist Anthony Grey published a controversial book in which he claimed that Holt had been an agent for the People's Republic of China and that he had been picked up by a Chinese submarine off Portsea and taken to China.

Michael Behe's controversial book Darwin's Black Box popularized the concept of irreducible complexity.

When examined separately from the book illustrations he did over time, Tenniel ’ s work at Punch alone, expressing decades of editorial viewpoints, often controversial and socially sensitive, was created to ultimately echo the voices of the British public, and is in itself massive.

Flynn's most recent book The Torchlight List proposes the controversial idea that a person can learn more from reading great works of literature than they can from going to university.

Freeman's book was controversial in its turn: later in 1983 the American Anthropological Association declared it to be " poorly written, unscientific, irresponsible and misleading.

In her book The Shock Doctrine, author and social activist Naomi Klein criticized Friedman's ideology and the principles that guided the economic restructuring that followed the military coups in countries such as Chile and Indonesia, drawing analogies between the way that Friedman proposed using the social " shock " of the coups to create an economic " blank slate " with Ewen Cameron's controversial medical experiments that used electroshock therapy to create a mental " blank slate " in patients with mental disorders.

In 2007 James D. Watson, Nobel laureate in biology, gave a controversial interview to the Sunday Times Magazine during a book tour in the United Kingdom.

Psychiatric responses included those of William Sargant, the controversial British psychiatrist, who reviewed the book for The British Medical Journal and particularly focused on Huxley's reflections on schizophrenia.

Although he avoids the controversial topic of human origins in the rest of the book so as not to prejudice readers against his theory, here he ventures a cautious hint that psychology would be put on a new foundation and that " Light will be thrown on the origin of man ".

The controversial new book was not welcomed by either reformers or Catholic conservatives ; and it was especially condemned in Devon and Cornwall, where traditional Catholic loyalty was at its strongest.

Wilde later revised the story for book publication, making substantial alterations, deleting controversial passages, adding new chapters and including an aphoristic Preface which has since become famous in its own right.

British reviewers widely condemned the book for immorality, and the novel was so controversial that W H Smith pulled that month's edition of Lippincott's from its bookstalls in railway stations.

1952, a controversial popular book.

The most controversial such reference occurred during a 1935 lecture which was published in 1953 as part of the book Introduction to Metaphysics.

In 1978, the Palestinian-American scholar Edward Said published his influential and controversial book, Orientalism, which " would forever redefine " the word ; he used the term to describe a pervasive Western tradition, both academic and artistic, of prejudiced outsider interpretations of the East, shaped by the attitudes of European imperialism in the 18th and 19th centuries.

This edition contained material that had been cut from the original published version, because the book was deemed to be too long and controversial for the market in 1951.

In 1993, erotic fiction author Zheng Yi wrote the controversial book Scarlet Memorial: Tales Of Cannibalism In Modern China, alleging “ systematic killing and cannibalization of individuals in the name of political revolution and ' class struggle '” among the Zhuang people in Wuxuan County, Guangxi, during that period.

According to the author Garry Boulard in his book Abraham Lincoln Ascendent, it was Sherman's 1859 endorsement of the controversial anti-slavery book, The Impending Crisis of the South, written by Hinton Helper, that doomed Sherman's chances of becoming Speaker.