Word: charter
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...veteran member of the Charter 77 group, is associated with VIA, a dissident news service active in several East European countries. If convicted, he could be sentenced to 34 years in prison...
Some prominent dissidents such as Hana Marvanova of the Independent Peace Association, Emanuel Mandler of the Democratic Initiative and Anna Sabatova, a senior member of Charter 77, also were arrested, the sources said...
...that time, the new Plan E charter stripped the mayor and City Council of almost all executive power, vesting it in the city manager, to be appointed by the council. The old voting system of wards and precincts was revamped and replaced with...
...known editors of the underground opposition newspaper Lidove Noviny. More than 100 journalists, most of them government employees, have since signed a petition calling for the release of the pair and for the immediate legalization of the newspaper. Now the government is hounding playwright Vaclav Havel, spokesman for the Charter 77 movement and the country's best-known dissident. Police called Havel in for questioning last Thursday, then allowed him to go to a city hospital when he complained of being ill. Their real purpose was to prevent him from taking part in unofficial celebrations Saturday to mark the 71st...
Could Lebanon actually be nearing a peace accord? Under the auspices of the Arab League, Lebanon's parliament last week agreed on the outlines of a new national charter revising the distribution of political power, the issue at the root of the country's 14-year-old civil war. The plan, worked out in the Saudi city of Taif, won the endorsement of 58 of the 62 legislators present. Whereas Christians previously held 54 of parliament's 99 seats, an enlarged, 108-member legislature would be evenly divided between Muslims and Christians...