The first direct universal voting since independence was held in Dec., 1970, to elect a National Assembly that would draft a new constitution and restore federal parliamentary government.
He is by nature an incrementalist, yet he has laid out an ambitious first-term agenda (energy independence, universal health care, withdrawal from Iraq).
Obama had run on a different set of issues -- withdrawing troops from Iraq, universal healthcare, energy independence... -- but shifted focus in response to a national emergency.
Rather, it's the universal ideals of independence and interdependence, of self-reliance and self-less collaboration that are at the core of our movement, and that have attracted such incredible support.
The same goes for pubic financing of elections, labor law reform, restructuring the tax laws to benefit the middle class instead of the richest people in the land, climate change, energy independence, universal access to pre-school and higher education.
Hong Kong's democrats need to focus on 'prize' of universal suffrage rather than independence, leading US academic Larry Diamond says.
After independence a universal health care system was instituted, and most hospital facilities came under government control.
Inside the White House, the concern about deficits was matched by the pressure to fund major initiatives such as universal health care, energy independence, and expanded access to college.
Those were identified recently in a secret memo as the advocacy of electoral democracy, news media independence and "universal values" like human rights.
Floated so far is an array of plans to undermine the BBC: its political independence; its universal offer of something for everyone; its funding; children's and arts programmes; and BBC online.
