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The Conté government was deeply involved in the First Liberian Civil War as it supported ULIMO, the major grouping opposing Taylor in Liberia.
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In December 1993, Conté was elected to a 5-year term as president in the country's first multi-party elections, which were marred by irregularities and lack of transparency on the part of the government.
In 1996, President Conté reorganized the government, appointing Sidya Touré to the revived post of Prime Minister and charging him with special responsibility for leading the government's economic reform program.
On 3 April 1984, following Toure's death, Lansana Conté, assistant chief of staff of the army, led a military coup which toppled the interim head of government.
Although there were subsequently reports that Diallo had been placed under house arrest, he denied this in an interview with IRIN and thanked Conté for maintaining confidence in him during his time in the government.
According to the RPG, positive change would not come as long as President Lansana Conté remained in power, regardless of who was Prime Minister or who was included in the government, and the party said that it would not participate in the government.
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In 1991, the CMRN was replaced by a mixed military and civilian body, the Transitional Council for National Recovery ( CTRN ), with Conté as president and a mandate to manage a five-year transition to full civilian rule.
At around the same time, a newspaper published a photograph suggesting that Conté was in poor physical condition and having difficulty standing up.
The editor of that newspaper was arrested and the newspaper was required to print a photograph in which Conté looked healthy.
It was the artist and inventor Nicolas-Jacques Conté who found a way to use the stone itself as a printing block ; a slightly different method for reproducing the inscriptions was adopted by Antoine Galland.
( The process of mixing graphite and clay, known as the Conté process, was patented by Nicolas-Jacques Conté in 1795 ).
In the 15th century the Conté of Provence was bounded by the Var river on the east, the Rhone river to the west, with the Mediterranean to the south, and a northern border that roughly followed the Durance river.
Popular anger at shortages in Conakry was entwined with anti-government protests, strikes, and violence over the rule of President Lansana Conté and the successive prime ministers, Cellou Dalein Diallo and Eugène Camara, appointed to fill the post after the resignation of Prime Minister François Lonseny Fall in April 2004.
In January 2004, LURD was divided by a power struggle between its chairman, Sekou Conneh, and his wife Aisha Conneh, an adviser to the President of Guinea, Lansana Conté.
However, on May 20, 2004, the Union was reactivated at a summit of the three leaders of the Mano River Union states, Presidents Lansana Conté of Guinea, Ahmad Tejan Kabbah of Sierra Leone and Chairman Gyude Bryant of Liberia.
On 9 December 2004, Diallo was appointed as Prime Minister by Guinean President Lansana Conté.
The decree approving the changes was said to be signed by President Conté, but it was later speculated that Conté might not have realized the significance of what he was signing at the time.
Nicolas-Jacques Conté ( 4 August 1755 – 6 December 1805 ) was a French painter, balloonist, army officer, and inventor of the modern pencil.
In Egypt Conté was called on to exercise his expertise in ballooning and was asked to prepare an ascent for the celebration of the French New Year on September 22, 1798.
Beavogui succeeded Touré and acted as interim President until 3 April, when he was deposed in a military coup led by Lansana Conté and Diarra Traoré.
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* 1755 – Nicolas-Jacques Conté, French painter and inventor ( d. 1805 )
Most drawing media are either dry ( e. g. graphite, charcoal, pastels, Conté, silverpoint ), or use a fluid solvent or carrier ( marker, pen and ink ).
A military junta headed by Lansana Conté and Diarra Traoré seized power on April 3, 1984 in a bloodless coup, ending Beavogui's brief rule.
Conté assumed the role of president with Traoré as his prime minister.
Conté immediately denounced the previous regime ’ s record on human rights, released 250 political prisoners and encouraged approximately 200, 000 more to return from exile.
In 1992, Conté announced a return to civilian rule, with a presidential poll in 1993 followed by elections to parliament in 1995 ( in which his party-the Party of Unity and Progress-won 71 of 114 seats.
In 2001 Conté organized and won a referendum to lengthen the presidential term and in 2003 begun his third term after elections were boycotted by the opposition.
In January 2005, Conté survived a suspected assassination attempt while making a rare public appearance in the capital Conakry.
Conté blamed neighbouring leaders for coveting Guinea's natural resources, though these claims were strenuously denied.
Lansana Conté died on December 23, 2008, leading to a coup d ' état by the military.
A military dictatorship, led by then-Lt. Col. Lansana Conté and styling itself the Military Committee of National Recovery ( CMRN ), took control of Guinea in April 1984, shortly after the death of independent Guinea's first president, Sékou Touré.
With Conté as president, the CMRN set about dismantling Touré's oppressive regime, abolishing the authoritarian constitution, dissolving the sole political party and its mass youth and women's organizations, and announcing the establishment of the Second Republic.
In the early hours of 23 December 2008, Aboubacar Somparé, the President of the National Assembly, announced on television that Conté had died at 6: 45pm local time on 22 December " after a long illness ", without specifying the cause of death.
According to Somparé, Conté " hid his physical suffering " for years " in order to give happiness to Guinea.
" Conté had left the country for medical treatment on numerous occasions in the years preceding his death, and speculation about his health had long been widespread.
Contrary to his usual practice, Conté did not appear on television to mark Tabaski earlier in December 2008, and this sparked renewed speculation, as well as concern about the possibility of violence in the event of his death.
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This is puzzling to an outsider conscious of the classic tradition of liberalism, because it is clear that these Democrats who are left-of-center are at opposite poles from the liberal Jefferson, who held that the best government was the least government.
In what has aptly been called a `` constitutional revolution '', the basic nature of government was transformed from one essentially negative in nature ( the `` night-watchman state '' ) to one with affirmative duties to perform.
Thirty years ago, while the nation was wallowing in economic depression, the prevailing philosophy of government was to stand aside and allow `` natural forces '' to operate and cure the distress.
The Rule of Law, historically a principle according everyone his `` day in court '' before an impartial tribunal, was broadened substantively by making it a responsibility of government to promote individual welfare.
This right of the State, its upholders contended, was essential to maintain the federal balance and protect the liberty of the people from the danger of centralizing power in the Union government.
The first of which to find important place in our federal government was the graduated income tax under Wilson.
Anyone who tried to remedy some of the most glaring defects in our form of democracy was denounced as a traitorous red whose real purpose was the destruction of our government.
`` I've been in government and I can tell some pretty hairy stories about personnel difficulties, so I know what a problem he was ''.
Steele apparently professed his sentiments in this book too openly and honestly for his own good, since the government was soon to use it as evidence against him in his trial before the House.
The outstanding example was in Garibaldi And The Thousand, where he made use of unpublished papers of Lord John Russell and English consular materials to reveal the motives which led the British government to permit Garibaldi to cross the Straits of Messina.
It was a sort of poetic justice that at the time of his own demise a new plot to overthrow the Venezuelan government, reportedly involving the use of Dominican arms by former Venezuelan Dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez, has been uncovered and quashed.
After all, it goes back to the days in which sedition was not un-American, the days in which the Sons of St. Tammany conspired to overthrow the government by force and violence -- the British government, that is.
As was to be expected Kennedy's latest speech was greeted with enthusiasm by revenge-seeking circles in Bonn, where officials of the West German government praised it ''.
`` With no strong men and no parliament to dispute his will, he was the government ''.
It was organizationally the responsibility of the Department of Public Works and was financed on a rotary fund basis with each agency of government contributing to the pool's operation.
In 1951 the pool's operation was transferred to the newly-created Department of Administration, an agency established as the central staff and auxiliary department of the state government.
There was a time some years ago when local taxation by the cities and towns was sufficient to support their own operations and a part of the cost of the state government as well.
To determine the practice and attitude of municipal governments concerning tangible movable property, a questionnaire was sent to all local government assessors or boards of assessors in Rhode Island.
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