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President and Assoumani
Colonel Azali Assoumani seized power in a bloodless coup in April 1999, overthrowing Interim President Tadjidine Ben Said Massounde, who himself had held the office since the death of democratically elected President Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim in November, 1998.
Presidential elections were held in 2002, at which Azali Assoumani was elected President.
* January 1 – Azali Assoumani, President of the Comoros
The result was a victory for opponents of the President of the Comoros, Azali Assoumani.

President and Azali
There is only one national political party in the Comoros, the Convention for the Renewal of the Comoros ( Convention pour le Renouveau des Comores, CRC ) of President Azali, which favours more centralised government.
At these elections the CRC was opposed by a loose coalition called the Camp of the Autonomous Islands ( Camp des Îles Autonomes ), which is not a formal party but a coalition of opposition groups organised by the presidents of the three federated islands and opposed to President Azali.
Media reports agree that the supporters of President Azali were heavily defeated, winning no seats in Anjouan or Mwali, and only six of nine seats in Azali's home base of Ngazidja.

President and Grande
Grande Comore had experienced troubles of its own in the late 1990s, when President Taki died on November 6, 1998.
He declared the movement of American forces to the Rio Grande at President Polk's command ' was contrary to the laws of this country, a usurpation on the rights of this House, and an aggression on the rights of Mexico.
President George W. Bush borrowed two oil paintings, A Charge to Keep by W. H. D. Koerner ( owned by Bush ), and Rio Grande by Tom Lea ( on loan from the El Paso Museum of Art ).
Mexican President Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna had been defeated and captured, and he had agreed to the Rio Grande border in the Treaties of Velasco.
By October 1845, 4000 troops, nearly half the U. S. Army, under orders of President Polk, were positioned on the north side of the Rio Grande. The Mexican garrison of Matamoros under Gen. F. Mejia consisted of the Zapadores ( Sappers ) Battalion, the 2d Light, 1st & 10th Line Infantry Regiments, the 7th Cavalry Regiment, Villas of the North Aux Cavalry, several Companies of Presidales and the Matamoros National Guards Battalion.
In 1991, through the initiative of Governor Pedro Simon, the State of Rio Grande do Sul officially recognized the kidnapping of the Uruguayans and compensated them for this, inspiring the democratic government of the President Luis Alberto Lacalle in Uruguay to do the same a year later.
After skirmishes along the Rio Grande between Mexican forces and American forces led by General Zachary Taylor, Congress approved a declaration of war and President James K. Polk called upon the states to draw up 50, 000 volunteers to be alongside the army.
Prior to the Mexican-American War, Slidell was sent to Mexico, by President James Knox Polk, to negotiate an agreement whereby the Rio Grande would be the southern border of Texas.
* 1988: title of " Grande Ufficiale " from the President of the Italian Republic
On 11 May 2001, he was appointed Grande ufficiale dell ' Ordine al merito della Repubblica Italiana by Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, President of Italy.
However, the Republic of Texas claimed the Rio Grande as its border with Mexico, citing the Treaty of Velasco signed by Mexican President Santa Anna, who agreed to the Rio Grande border after losing the Battle of San Jacinto.
In 1967 he founded Supermercados Grande where he remains as President and he is also President of Empresas Cordero Badillo.
Abdou Soule Elbak was elected President of Grande Comore in May 2002.
Proclaimed Casa Grande Reservation by an order of President Benjamin Harrison on June 22, 1892, Casa Grande Ruins became the first prehistoric and cultural reserve in the US.
In Serbia he was а Professor of Economics at Belgrade's Grande École, Minister of Finance, President of the Serbian Scientific Society and an corresponding member of the Serbian Royal Academy.
After his return to Saint-Domingue, Vincent Ogé sent this letter from Grande Rivière, his camp in the Department of the North, to the President of the Assembly of that department:
U. S. President Thomas Jefferson insisted that the purchase included all land to the east of the Rocky Mountains and to the north of the Rio Grande.
During this time, he provided aid to Mexican President Benito Juárez and prevented French troops of Emperor Maximilian from establishing themselves along the Rio Grande.
His design won the international competition of the Grande Arche in Paris, France, because the French President François Mitterrand felt it was the best because of its ' purity and strength '.
He was honoured with the title of Grande Ufficiale by the President of the Italian Republic and the “ Grand Decoration of Honour in Gold ” title by the President of the Austrian Republic.

President and is
Only the President is permitted to authorize the use of nuclear weapons.
It is of the utmost importance to the people of America and of the world how their governing President `` ends up '' during the four years of his term.
`` I may possibly be a greater risk than is the normal person of my age '', the President had said on February 29th of the election year, ignoring the fact that no one of his age had ever lived out another term.
Mr. Nehru is subjected to stern lectures on neutralism by our Department of State, and an American President observes sourly that Sweden would be a little less neurotic if it were a little more capitalistic ''.
Remembering the step-by-step fate of Danzig and the West German misgivings about `` salami '' tactics, it is to be hoped that the dispatch of General Clay to West Berlin as President Kennedy's representative will mark a stiffening of response not only to future indignities and aggressions but also to some that have passed.
The new President is in no position to start out his dealings with Moscow by issuing callable bluffs.
The move for establishment of a national seashore park on 30,000 acres of Cape Cod, from Provincetown to Chatham, is strengthened by President Kennedy's interest in that area.
Gen. Taylor will report to President Kennedy in a few days on the results of his visit to South Viet Nam and, judging from some of his remarks to reporters in the Far East, he is likely to urge a more efficient mobilization of Vietnamese military, economic, political and other resources.
It is a war to stay out of today, especially in view of the fact that President Ngo Dinh Diem apparently does not want United States troops.
Senator Mundt's gross distortion of President Eisenhower's conversation into a denunciation of President Kennedy as too left wing, a statement Mr. Eisenhower declared to be entirely false, is another case in point.
That this is not good politics is underscored by the latest poll figures which show that 72 per cent of the people like the way in which the new President is conducting the nation's business.
Recent statements by the President and Defense Department spokesmen have, to the contrary, assured us that our lead is very great.
In the first place, a large part of the discrepancy between President Eisenhower's estimate of a 1.5 billion dollar surplus for the same period and the new estimate of an almost seven billion dollar deficit is the result of the outgoing President's farewell gift of a political booby-trap to his successor.
`` The President says '', the translator came in, `` that the reason he asked you where you were going is because he hoped you would be visiting other areas in Southeast Asia, and that everywhere you went, you would seek the answer to your question.
I would like to see you devote some space in an early issue to the news blackout concerning President Kennedy's activities, so far as Southern California is concerned.
You remember the words of President Kennedy a week or so ago, when someone asked him when he was in Canada, and Dean Rusk was in Europe, and Vice President Johnson was in Asia, `` Who is running the store ''??
As this year marks the centennial of the beginning of the Civil War, this fact is being commemorated with several exhibits throughout the State, but most of all paying tribute to the first Rhode Island Volunteers who rushed to the defense of the City of Washington, putting at the disposal of President Lincoln the only fully equipped and best trained regiment at this time.
This is the question now facing President Kennedy: How to put a stop to the Soviet buildup in Cuba and to Communist infiltration of this hemisphere??
We cannot test public opinion until the President and the leaders of the country have gone to the public to explain what is required and have asked them for support for the necessary action.
These services at which attendance is voluntary are led by the Chaplain, by the President of the College, by selected faculty members, students, and visitors.
In working out the practical legal conclusions President Waters was not thinking only of this pilot project, for it is planned to duplicate this program or system in other builder developments nationally.

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