Word: affirmation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...buildings for use by the Palestine Liberation Organization, are dangerous harbingers or renewed warfare in the region, the implied threat to non-Moslem minorities and the thousands of Jews now living in Iran is especially troubling. The Iranian government and the international community must at the earliest possible opportunity affirm that persecution of any minority will not be the tools with which the various revolutionary forces in Iran consolidate their rule...
...important second military district, based in Oran. A devout Muslim whose wife never appears in public without a veil, Chadli has avoided the political limelight. In his ten-minute acceptance speech last week, he vowed that he would be a faithful guardian of the Boumedienne legacy. He declared, "I affirm that socialism is an irreversible option for our country. I pledge myself to fight for the maintenance of our national independence both politically and economically and to maintain the mastery of our national wealth...
...years ahead of us, precisely because the pressures on private institutions, whether large or small, old or new, will increase, it will be essential to affirm the particular character of private institutions and to remember that because times are financially strained, the government is not always the place to turn for help. Such rescue, even if it were to occur, would result in more regulation. Of course we depend on federal funds for a wide variety of crucial research and financial aid; of course there are legitimate requirements of accountability for the taxpayers' dollars that follow federal funds; of course...
Sadat sees the declaration of principles as an essential step toward an eventual Israeli withdrawal from the occupied territories, because the declaration would, in effect, affirm Arab sovereignty over the lands. He said to the Knesset, "Our land does not yield itself to bargaining . . . We insist on complete withdrawal from these territories...
...government and the right to issue passports, there would be certain limits imposed initially on its sovereignty; thus the new country should be described as an "entity" rather than a nation. As a first step toward normalization, Israel and the Palestinian homeland would recognize each other diplomatically and affirm the other's right to exist in peace...