Word: appointing
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...Panama were still at arm's length over the Canal Zone, though both sides seemed to be wearying of the six-week dispute. A new formula called for the two countries to resume diplomatic relations and then appoint negotiators with "full plenipotentiary powers" to discuss the 1903 treaty under which the U.S. operates the Panama Canal. The phraseology was intended to satisfy Panamanian demands for changes in the treaty, while not committing the U.S. in advance. By week's end Secretary of State Dean Rusk could only say: "There has not been an agreement...
...Prime Minister Pearson's first acts when he took office last year was to appoint a Royal Commission on Biculturalism to recommend ways to develop "the basis of equal partnership." But feelings run deep, and, partly spurred by the rise of Charles de Gaulle's France to new prominence, more and more French Canadians are openly talking about a separate Quebec. Yet the fear of economic hardship, among other things, discourages many Quebeckers from taking separatism seriously-it would be a "disaster," says Quebec's Premier Jean Lesage. On its own, however, Quebec is seeking capital from...
...statement before the subcommittee, Freund also suggested that the President appoint a commission to determine his own inability to hold office. The commission would be composed of the Vice President, the heads of several executive departments, prominent members of Congress, and a medical doctor...
According to Goyette, the first job of the survey will be to decide "criteria for what make a desirable House." After that, he said, survey workers will carefully examine floor plans and draw up recommendations for improvements. Goyette will soon appoint a project co-ordinator to supervise the survey...
...distribute them. Only about 6,000 of the church's clerical livings are directly assigned by bishops and diocesan authorities. Nearly 2,600 are benefices controlled by Anglican laymen as private patrons. Others are filled by Oxford, Cambridge and the Crown, which have the right to appoint rectors on behalf of benefactors who are aliens, lunatics or Roman Catholics. A few parish advow-sons (the right of filling a benefice) can even be bought on the open market, like used castles...