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Modrow, Hans

(Encyclopedia) Modrow, Hans Modrow, Hans hänz môdˈrō [key], 1928–2023, German politician. He served in the German Army…

Linh, Nguyen Van

(Encyclopedia) Linh, Nguyen VanLinh, Nguyen Vannəwēˈĕn vän lĭn [key], 1915–98, Vietnamese political leader, b. near Hanoi as Nguyen Van Cuc. As a young man he was active in organizing Vietnam's…

Farage, Nigel Paul

(Encyclopedia) Farage, Nigel PaulFarage, Nigel Paulfârˈäj [key], 1964–, British political leader. A commodities trader and long a Euroskeptic, he was a member of the Conservative party until 1992,…

Advani, Lal Krishna

(Encyclopedia) Advani, Lal Krishna, 1927–, Indian political leader, b. Karachi, British India (now in Pakistan). A lawyer and a member of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata party (BJP), he was…

Bernstein, Eduard

(Encyclopedia) Bernstein, EduardBernstein, Eduardāˈd&oomacr;ärt bĕrnˈshtīn [key], 1850–1932, German socialist. From 1872 he was actively associated with the Social Democratic party. In 1878,…

Turnbull, Malcolm Bligh

(Encyclopedia) Turnbull, Malcolm Bligh, 1954–, Australian political leader, b. Sidney. Educated at the Univ. of Sidney and, as a Rhodes scholar, at Oxford, he practised law and was a journalist and a…

Suzman, Helen

(Encyclopedia) Suzman, Helen, 1917–2009, South African politician and anti-apartheid activist, b. Helen Gavronsky, grad. Univ. of Witwatersrand (1940). The daughter of Lithuanian Jewish immigrants,…

Bayh, Birch Evans, Jr.

(Encyclopedia) Bayh, Birch Evans, Jr.Bayh, Birch Evans, Jr.bī [key], 1928–2019, U.S. politician, b. Terre Haute, Ind., grad. Indiana Univ. law school (1960). A Democrat, Bayh served (1954–62) in the…

Stokes, Carl Burton

(Encyclopedia) Stokes, Carl Burton, 1927–96, American political leader, b. Cleveland. A 1956 graduate of the Cleveland-Marshall School of Law, Stokes began his political career as a Democratic member…