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Ratsiraka's dwindling popularity in the late 1980s reached a critical point in 1991 when presidential guards opened fire on unarmed protesters during a rally.
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Ratsiraka's and when
Tension over popular dissatisfaction with Ratsiraka's rule was brought to a head when presidential guards were ordered to open fire on unarmed pro-democracy protesters in 1989.
Ratsiraka's and fire
Ratsiraka said that he had not ordered the Presidential Guard to open fire, but Ratsiraka's orders have been recorded and in these records, he orders the helicopter to shoot the car of the HAS president and open fire on the strikers but the incident severely undermined his already precarious position.
Ratsiraka's and on
During the 16 subsequent years of President Ratsiraka's rule, Madagascar continued under a government committed to revolutionary socialism based on the 1975 Constitution establishing a highly centralized state.
Although he had lost much of his support, in the first round of the election, held on November 3, he was able to take second place with 23. 39 % of the vote, behind Ratsiraka's 36. 61 %.
Ratsiraka's and .
Ratsiraka's original seven-year term as President continued after his party ( Avant-garde de la Révolution Malgache or AREMA ) became the only legal party in the 1977 elections.
Ratsiraka's amnesty issue, related to the court sentence that prevented him from returning to Madagascar, was resolved at the talks.
Didier Ratsiraka's nephew, Roland Ratsiraka, is also a politician.
* 1975-Name of " Fort Dauphin " changed to " Tolagnaro " as part of President Didier Ratsiraka's revolution.
dwindling and popularity
Andy Kellman of Allmusic expressed: " This set, unlike so many other anthologies from her contemporaries, hardly confirms dwindling creativity or popularity.
By the mid 1990s, electronic music had become unfashionable amid the heady Britpop climate, and McCluskey disbanded the group in 1996 due to dwindling popularity.
Grimaldi's popularity changed the balance of the evening's entertainment, with the first, relatively serious, section soon dwindling to what Mayer calls " little more than a pretext for determining the characters who were to be transformed into those of the harlequinade.
Reasons for the decline include the rise in popularity of freeflying and wingsuit flying, the hazards associated with flying and releasing the board, and the dwindling number of experienced skysurfers to train new pilots.
With dwindling support from traditional Labour voters, and a population weary of war-time measures, Fraser's popularity declined.
With dwindling work in variety, brought about by the increasing popularity of television, he commented, " When I ’ m dead and gone, the game ’ s finished ".
Late 2007 Koen Wauters expressed his disappointment with Clouseau's dwindling popularity in the Netherlands over the last ten years ; the record company chose not to promote albums assuming that they'd sell themselves.
Shorthand was dwindling in popularity during this series ' usage.
Cricketing authorities were looking to boost the game's popularity with the younger generation in response to dwindling crowds and reduced sponsorship.
The cricketing authorities were looking to boost the game's popularity with the younger generation in response to dwindling crowds and reduced sponsorship.
The professional league is dwindling in popularity and many wrestlers have turned their attention to mixed martial arts fighting, even though Ssireum involves no striking or submissions of any kind, as a means of making a living.
The tower is not used as much today as it was through the ' 70s, ' 80s and early ' 90s because of the dwindling popularity of microwave transmission equipment but is still used for modern cell phone communications, 3G internet devices and emergency radio services such as those used by the RCMP and fire departments.
The episode pokes fun at the dwindling popularity of Bill Clinton's presidency at the time.
The cameo-filled movie begins as a semi-autobiographical retelling of Shore's early success and dwindling popularity in the late 1990s, after which it documents Shore's ( fictional ) attempt to fake his own death in order to drum up popularity for his films.
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After having been fairly active in the late 1970s and early 1980s, currently the dwindling number of its militants, lack of any social support and police action has allowed Spanish officials to claim a number of times to have disbanded the GRAPO after the few remaining militants of the band were captured.
By this time, the canal's importance for commercial traffic was dwindling, and by the late 1960s commercial vessels had almost ceased to operate, the lorry taking over the traffic not already lost to the railway in the 19th century, and closure of the Regent's Canal Dock to shipping in 1969 was the last nail in the coffin.
By the late seventies even that small remembrance was dwindling.
They are extremely susceptible to overfishing because of this, and many stocks ( especially those off New Zealand and Australia, which were first exploited in the late 1970s ) have already crashed ; recently discovered substitute stocks are rapidly dwindling.
* often the strong brood rearing disposition and resulting large food consumption in late winter or early spring causes spring dwindling and hence slow or tardy spring development
By the late 1960s, demand for two-speed automatic transmissions was dwindling as buyers were demanding three-speed units ( Ford, Chrysler and American Motors had already switched entirely to three-speed automatics by this time ).
By the late 1990s, Weyrich declared that social conservatives were no longer a majority having a liberal agenda forced on them by an elite but rather are a dwindling minority that have lost control over the culture ; that traditional culture and the counterculture have traded places.
Following the erosion of her party and its dwindling strength in the Goa assembly, Mrs Kakodkar briefly left the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party, to found another party named after her late father, the Bhausaheb Bandodkar Gomantak Party, or BBGP.
dwindling and 1980s
When the bottom fell out of the oil industry in the early 1980s because of cheaper foreign product and dwindling local resources, Houma fell with it.
Pacific Northwest Wrestling ( PNW ) was one of the main NWA territories into the 1980s, but, due to the aging of promoter Don Owen and dwindling profit, it closed down in 1992.
Up to the 1980s, Halady was famous for an old tiles factory that has become obsolete and outdated due to dwindling forest cover and decrease demand of tiles in view of RCC houses.
With the dwindling availability of these older vehicles, smaller full-sized vehicles of the 1980s and 1990s are more frequently encountered today.
Started in 1972, Wandong was once Australia's largest country music festival, but dwindling crowds in the 1980s lead to its cessation until 2001, when the modern version of the festival was inaugurated.
After Humbard moved his ministry to Florida in the 1980s, the Cathedral of Tomorrow continued with dwindling attendance as a local church with a series of independent pastors which had increasingly fewer ties with the Humbard family.
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When Massená reached the city of Viseu wanting to replenish his armies dwindling food supplies, none of the inhabitants remained, and all there was to eat were grapes and lemons that when eaten in large quantities would be a better laxative than a source of calories.
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Pikul, one of a dwindling few who has refused to have a bio-port installed to this point, at first objects due to a phobia about " surgical penetration ," but eventually gives in.
Despite his opposition to the treaty and his mistrust of the governments intentions and methods, the dwindling of the buffalo herds ultimately prevented his people from continuing to rely on this traditional food source and pushed the Cree to the point of starvation in less than a decade.
With the station's finances and program supply dwindling, WHCT gradually increased the amount of paid programming and infomercials on its schedule, to the point where it ultimately ran them for 18 hours a day.
These characters were met with limited success, however, and Jack Brown's uninspired gangster storylines were considered a low point of E Streets final few months, as was a dream sequence involving Max turning into a werewolf, which seemed a desperate attempt by the writers to hold on to a hastily dwindling audience.
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