Word: charter
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President Carter clamped a number of restrictions on the CIA after disclosures in the 1970s that the agency, in violation of its own charter, collected files on 7,200 U.S. citizens in an effort to link Viet Nam War dissenters with foreign governments. Under the Carter order only the FBI, with approval of the Attorney General, may infiltrate and influence domestic groups. The congressional critics urged the White House to maintain this restriction in any new guidelines, and also recommended against weakening Congress's authority to oversee CIA operations...
William and Mary is actually older than Harvard, the News says, because an obscure British charter dating back to the beginning of the 17th century connects the college with a university overseas...
...issue was Trudeau's long-held belief that Canada requires a stronger central government and, in addition, a constitutional charter of rights guaranteeing equal freedoms for all the 24 million French-and English-speaking citizens, regardless of local jurisdiction. Both of Trudeau's aims are hotly disputed by the provincial premiers. They jealously guard the extensive powers granted them in 1867 by Canada's founding British North America Act, still held by Britain, which is the basis for Canada's self-government. Among other things, the premiers fear that Trudeau wants to impinge on such provincial...
Trudeau finally decided to bypass the premiers, asking Britain to add his charter to the B.N.A. Act and then give authority over the document to Canada. The British were willing in principle, providing the Canadian Supreme Court agreed. In its ruling, the court said that Trudeau could ask for the B.N.A. Act. But it also ruled that any prior tinkering with the act would flout unwritten constitutional tradition unless it went hand in hand with "at least a substantial measure of provincial consent...
...provides a weekly summary of education news in short takes, plus clear but comprehensive studies of major issues. One notable example: a detailed and trenchant analysis of the status and achievements of busing just as the policy is about to be abandoned. The paper's 19,000 charter subscribers are mostly educational policymakers-state officials, school superintendents and principals. So far. Education Week seems to deserve...