Word: accords
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...accord reached by Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker, House Speaker Tip O'Neill and White House aides does not kill the often wounded but seemingly indestructible intercontinental missile. Unless its critics are undermined by a Reagan re-election landslide, however, they will have at least four clean shots next year at grounding the MX for good. Predicted a confident O'Neill: "The MX will never be deployed." Warned a less certain Democratic colleague, Representative Les AuCoin of Oregon: "MX is in its coffin, but we still have to drive the silver stake through its heart...
...Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Shamir had been up until 5 a.m. negotiating the last detail. Finally, at 3:45 p.m., the two met again in the Knesset basement. Sitting at a blue cloth-covered table and surrounded by colleagues, Labor Leader Peres and Likud Chief Shamir signed the accord that established a national unity government. Cognac glasses in hand, the new partners toasted the accomplishment with cries of "L 'chayim " (To life...
Seven weeks after Israelis went to the polls, the country finally had a new government. Since the coalition controlled 97 out of 120 Knesset seats, the accord was easily approved by the legislature, and Peres was sworn in as Prime Minister. He will be the country's leader during the next 25 months while Shamir serves as Foreign Minister and acting Prime Minister; for the following 25 months, the two men will switch jobs. Yitzhak Rabin, who was Labor Prime Minister from 1974 to 1977, will be Defense Minister during the entire 50-month term. Yitzhak Modai, until last...
These examples show that free speech, though extremely important, must still be fitted together with other rights and legitimate interests. The same is true on the campuses of universities, which accord free speech such great importance. Even the right of professors to academic freedom does not mean that they can teach courses outside their field of competence, or abuse their students verbally in an unjustified manner, or use coercive power to force their ideas on unwilling classes. (At the same time, students must give professors the freedom to present their views without fear of disruption or harassment...
Once again, the University will accord great latitude to student organizations in determining how to conduct their meetings. Since organizations may restrict private meetings to their own members, they may invite particular guests to an otherwise closed meeting on the explicit, prior understanding that only members will be allowed to participate in discussion. Once an organization opens its meeting to the public, however, it must not then discriminate on grounds such as race, religion, or political persuasion in deciding who shall be given the opportunity to ask questions. A moderator may limit the question period for the benefit...