Word: charter
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HRAAA lawyers say they may attempt to demonstrate that the report "violates the spirit and possibly the letter of Harvard's corporate charter," which was established in the 17th century, said Jamin Raskin '83, one of the legal advisers. He said the attorneys are considering lodging a complaint with the Massachusetts Attorney General...
Meanwhile, HRAAA members and legal advisers areinvestigating what they say are discrepanciesbetween the recommendations and the University'scharter. He said the new recommendations wouldlimit who can vote and who can run for overseer,contrary to the intent of the charter. The Youngreport also proposes allowing officers of theUniversity to participate more extensively in theelection process, although the charter prohibitsUniversity officials from voting in the electionor holding places on the board...
...record of refusal, not only to negotiate with Israel but even to recognize it, is a known fact. It is also a fact that the P.L.O., which is unanimously viewed as the representative of the Palestinian people, has never abandoned its goal to destroy Israel as formulated in their charter. In addition, the young Palestinians who are rebelling against the Israeli occupation have reiterated, time and again, that their goal is the recapture of the whole land of Israel...
...Only then, the real dance began," he recalls. In 1977 his family had signed Charter 77, a petition that called on the Prague government to observe the 1975 Helsinki accords on human rights. Within a month, all four were arrested and held briefly for questioning. Ruml was frequently picked up by the police in the years that followed, and in April 1981 he and his son Jan were accused of organizing subversive activities, an offense that carries a ten-year jail term. They were kept in different parts of a Prague prison, seeing each other only once in 13 months...
...support for a plan to "offer through a provisional government a political program that would be internationally acceptable," a P.L.O. official said. Speaking to the Paris weekly Journal du Dimanche, Arafat's second in command, Salah Khalaf, said the new agenda "would be completely different" from the 1968 National Charter calling for "armed struggle" to destroy Israel...