Word: branched
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...proposals call for an Ulster government to be composed of an executive branch and an 80-member Assembly, elected on the basis of proportional representation. Catholics make up about one-third of Ulster's population of 1.5 million. Since they would form a permanent minority in the Assembly, Atkins outlined two options for assuring them a voice in the executive branch: 1) Cabinet seats proportional to their strength in the Assembly, or 2) a Cabinet controlled by the Protestant majority but counterbalanced by a special Council of the Assembly, endowed with veto powers, on which the largely Catholic minority...
...Department, lawyers privately agreed that Clark had "a good argument" on constitutional grounds. The Supreme Court in 1958 had ruled that "the right to travel is a part of the 'liberty' of which the citizen cannot be deprived without the due process of law." While the Executive Branch has the right to deny U.S. citizens the use of passports to travel to certain countries, the court said in 1967, only Congress can enact criminal laws penalizing Americans who decide to go to such countries anyway. Congress had repeatedly refused...
When reporting for service, the draftee is channeled into a military branch. Though he can indicate his preference, he must accept the draft board's decision. Generally, those with good records and the highest intelligence are sent to the air force, the strategic rocket forces or the navy. Non-Slavs, however, are usually excluded from these elite units. Says Rand Corporation Analyst S. Enders Wimbush: "Soldiers are clearly recruited in a way that reflects the worries of society. The average Russian citizen and Soviet decision maker have questions about the allegiance of the non-Slav, especially the Central Asian." Typically...
...latest acronym for an organization that was founded in 1917 as the Cheka and was successively known as GPU, OGPU, NKVD and MGB. A fief within the Soviet state, the KGB is an intelligence agency, counterintelligence organization and internal security police with its own uniformed military branch. Administratively it is divided into various "directorates" whose number and function are frequently scrambled, partly to confuse rival foreign intelligence services...
Thus, besides shock, there was bewilderment among black and white leaders over why Jordan would be a killer's target. Said William Brown, executive director of the Urban League branch in Hartford, Conn.: "Vernon Jordan is the voice of reason, and if this voice is silenced, we are back in the early '60s." Exclaimed Gary Avery, chairman of the N.A.A.C.P.'s voter registration drive in Atlanta: "When people like him get shot, who's safe...