CONTENTS
The
United States
Bill
Gates
George
W. Bush
Al
Gore
England
Tony
Blair
France
Jacques
Chirac
Lionel
Jospin
Germany
Gerhard
Schröder
Other
European Community Nations
The
English-Speaking Commonwealth
John
Howard
Russia
Poland
Lech
Walesa
Other
East European Nations
Latin
America
Japan
Emperor
Tsugu Akihito (1989- )
China
Jiang
Zemin
Zhu
Rongji
India
Other
Asia
Dalai
Lama
Middle
East
Ayatollah
Ali Khamenei (Spiritual Leader of Iran)
Muhammad
Khatami
Saddham
Hussein (President of Iraq)
Hafez
Assad (President of Syria)
Abdullah
II (King of Jordan)
Yassir
Arafat (Palestinian Leader)
Ehud
Barak (Israeli Prime Minister)
Hosni
Mubarak (President of Egypt)
Muammar
Qaddafi (President of Libya)
Sub-Saharan
Africa
TM
Mbeki
The
United Nations
THE UNITED
STATES
|
Bill
Gates
1955- .
Gates'
major works or writings:
The Road
Ahead
(with Nathan Myhrvold and Peter Rinearson,1995)
Links
to other information on Gates:
William
H. Gates: Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Microsoft
Corporation
Biography
of Bill Gates (Brian Hornburg)
George
W. Bush
ENGLAND
|
Tony
Blair
1953- . Labour Party.
British Prime Minister, 1997- .
FRANCE
|
Jacques
Chirac
1932- .
Gaullist. President
of France since 1995 (defeating Lionel Jaspin in a fairly close election).
French Prime Minister, 1974-1976 and 1986-1988.
Lionel
Jospin (1997- )
1937- .
Socialist Party Presidential
candidate in 1995; he received 47.3% of the national vote in the run-off
election. He was appointed Prime Minister of France in June
1997.
Links
to other information on Lionel Jospin:
The
Prime Minister (Office
of the Prime Minister)
Lionel
JOSPIN Prime Minister (Ministry of Foreign
Affairs)
GERMANY
|
Gerhard
Schröder (1998- )
German Chancellor, 1998- .
OTHER
EUROPEAN COMMUNITY NATIONS
|
THE
ENGLISH-SPEAKING
COMMONWEALTH
|
John Howard
(1996- )
(Liberal) Australian Prime Minister,
1996 to the present.
Links
to other information on John Howard:
The
Honourable John Howard PM
RUSSIA
|
Vladimir
Vladimirovitch Putin (2000- )
Putin was named Prime Minister
by Russian President Boris Yeltsin in August of 1999. He was a political
unknown at that time.
On January 1, 2000, when
Boris Yeltsin resigned as President, Putin took the spotlight--especially
in his heavy-handed move to crush rebellion in Chechnya.
With 69% of eligible voters
participating in the national presidential elections on March 27, 2000,
Vladimir Putin was elected president on the first ballot with over 52%
of the votes; the next largest contender, Gennady Zyuganov, leader of the
Communist Party, drew almost 30% of the vote; and Grigory Yavlinsky, leader
of the Liberals, drew just under 6% of the vote).
POLAND
|
Lech
Walesa
Links
to other information on Walesa:
Lech
Walesa (Time 100: Timothy Garton Ash)
OTHER
EAST EUROPEAN NATIONS
|
LATIN
AMERICA
|
Fernando
Henrique Cardoso
President of Brazil, 1994 to
the present. Widely appreciated as having brought Brazil's soaring
inflation under control.
Alberto
Fujimori
Hugo
Banzer
Bolivian General and dictator
of Bolivia, 1971-1978. Present elected civilian President of Bolivia.
Eduardo
Frei
President of Chile.
JAPAN
|
Emperor
Tsugu Akihito (1989- )
1933- .
Emperor, 1989 to the
present.
CHINA
|
Jiang
Zemin
Current President of China and
head of the Chinese Communist Party.
Zhu
Rongji
Prime Minister of China.
INDIA
|
OTHER
ASIA
|
Dalai
Lama
MIDDLE
EAST
|
Ayatollah
Ali Khamenei
Muhammad
Khatami
President of the Islamic Republic
(Iran), 1997- .
Saddham
Hussein
Hafez
Assad
Abdullah
II (King of Jordan)
Yassir
Arafat
1929- .
Palestinian Leader.
Links
to other information on Yasser Arafat:
Yasser
Arafat (First Person)
Ehud
Barak
1942- .
Israeli Prime Minister (since
May of 1999) and leader of the Israeli Labor Party (1966-1999).
Links
to other information on Ehud Barak:
Ehud
Barak (First Person)
Hosni
Mubarak
Muammar
Qaddafi
Muhammad
VI (King of Morocco)
SUB-SAHARAN
AFRICA
|
Thabo
Mvuyelwa Mbeki
President
of South Africa, June 1999 to the present). President of the ANC
since 1997
Links
to other information on TM Mbeki
Thabo
Mvuyelwa MBEKI (African National Congress)
THE UNITED
NATIONS
|
HISTORY
OF THE EARLY PART OF THE 21st CENTURY: GENERAL
SOURCES
|
The
Second Half of the 20th Century (Spiritual Pilgrim)
Other Sources:
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