rogressive Party or DPP [Frank HSIEH, chairman]; Kuomintang or KMT
(Nationalist Party) [LIEN Chan, chairman]; New Party or NP [LI
Ching-hwa]; People First Party or PFP [James SOONG, chairman]; other
minor parties

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@Political pressure groups and leaders

Afghanistan:
Afghan refugees in Pakistan, Australia, US, and
elsewhere have organized politically; Mellat (Social Democratic
Party) [leader NA]; Peshawar, Pakistan-based groups such as the
Coordination Council for National Unity and Understanding in
Afghanistan or CUNUA [Ishaq GAILANI]; tribal elders represent
traditional Pashtun leadership; Writers Union of Free Afghanistan or
WUFA [A. Rasul AMIN]

Albania:
NA

Algeria:
NA

American Samoa:
NA

Andorra:
NA

Angola:
Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda or FLEC
[N'zita Henriques TIAGO; Antonio Bento BEMBE]

note: FLEC is waging a small-scale, highly factionalized, armed
struggle for the independence of Cabinda Province

Anguilla:
NA

Antigua and Barbuda:
Antigua Trades and Labor Union or ATLU [William
ROBINSON]; People's Democratic Movement or PDM [Hugh MARSHALL]

Argentina:
Argentine Association of Pharmaceutical Labs (CILFA);
Argentine Industrial Union (manufacturers' association); Argentine
Rural Society (large landowners' association); business
organizations; General Confederation of Labor or CGT
(Peronist-leaning umbrella labor organization); Peronist-dominated
labor movement; Roman Catholic Church; students

Armenia:
NA

Aruba:
NA

Australia:
Australian Democratic Labor Party (anti-Communist Labor
Party splinter group); Peace and Nuclear Disarmament Action (Nuclear
Disarmament Party splinter group)

Austria:
Austrian Trade Union Federation (primarily Socialist) or
OeGB; Federal Economic Chamber; OeVP-oriented League of Austrian
Industrialists or VOeI; Roman Catholic Church, including its chief
lay organization, Catholic Action; three composite leagues of the
Austrian People's Party or OeVP representing business, labor, and
farmers

Azerbaijan:
Sadval, Lezgin movement; self-proclaimed Armenian
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic; Talysh independence movement

Bahamas, The:
NA

Bahrain:
Shi'a activists fomented unrest sporadically 1994-97,
demanding the return of an elected National Assembly and an end to
unem