On July 16, West Sumatra governor Muchlis Ibrahim sent a letter to the central authorities.
Local governments and banks rushed to take advantage of the central authorities' indulgence while it lasted.
Fortunately, China's central authorities have not been oblivious to the human causes of the disaster.
The growing interest in Mr. Bo's fate parallels the efforts by central authorities to solidify control over Chongqing.
And, of course, central authorities will be judged by their ability to force village chiefs to make it happen.
The suspicion, then, is that the central authorities are keener on exploiting the west than on alleviating its poverty.
In short, despite the central authorities' assertions, the Treaty does not contemplate a voluntary, consensual union of equal sovereign states.
And tax revenues that accrue to the park do not have to be handed up to the provincial and central authorities.
Under no circumstances should the Kremlin be allowed to borrow under conditions that are, for the Soviet central authorities at least, risk-free.
On the one hand, the Administration's reflexive reaction is to try to accommodate virtually any demand from the central authorities in Moscow.
Mr. Weinberger argued that the West should similarly be refusing to align itself with the central authorities currently clinging to power in Moscow.
"Offering further taxpayer-underwritten economic assistance to the Soviet central authorities at this juncture makes neither good economic nor strategic sense, " said Frank J.
Through this step, the White House is strengthening central authorities in Moscow at the expense of democratic forces in the 15 Soviet republics.
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Moreover, especially when taken together, they will serve to strengthen precisely the wrong sorts in the Soviet Union the central authorities in Moscow.
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Accordingly, promoting and accelerating wholesale devolution of power from even the new central authorities to reformist republics must be the objective of American policy.
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It reinforced the message that no changes would be made without the central authorities' approval, at the beginning and the end of the process.
With a stubbornness worthy of a better application, the latter try to defend that which exists only in their imagination the Soviet central authorities.
One of the problems is that Syria and Iran also have Kurdish populations, and these populations have also had problems with the central authorities there.
Local and central authorities didn't immediately respond to requests to comment.
With a stubbornness worthy of a better application, the latter try to defend that which exists only in their imagination -- the Soviet central authorities.
Zintan's fighters have so far declined to turn the captured Saif al-Islam over to the central authorities and may be using him as a bargaining chip.
Or to line the pockets of the corrupt central authorities?
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In the absence of market-oriented institutions and front-loaded structural changes, it would be simply irresponsible to provide the Soviet central authorities with large additional sums of untied financial assistance.
The Soviet central authorities may believe that this additional firepower could come in handy in the event massive repression of separatist republics, striking workers and democratic forces is undertaken.
But potentially the most interesting development took place late last year when the central authorities gave Newbridge Capital the go-ahead to take a controlling stake in Shenzhen Development Bank.
It also represents a further, unmistakable alignment of the United States with the central authorities in Moscow over the reform-minded governments coming to power at the republic and local levels.
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It actually would amount to giving the reconfigured Soviet central authorities the wherewithal to reward some of their principal creditors in the West for helping to underwrite the oppressive old order.
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What is unclear in the case of the Songhua River incident is whether the central authorities were aware of the extent of the problem before it was finally revealed last week.
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