Word: charter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...embassy, and supports their refusal to turn the hostages over to the government. Once again, many Iranians believe, Beheshti is motivated less by ideology than by expediency and could well abandon the students if their cause seems lost. Observers note that Beheshti has never allowed the charter of his party to be published. Says one critic: "He does not want to commit himself to a rigid framework of action. He has to move with the tide. " And he adds: "We have not seen the end of Beheshti or his party...
...East Berlin Conference, sided with the Italian Communist Party Secretary Enrico Berlinguer in advocating insubordination to Moscow. It was this same Georges Marchais who, in 1976 at the 22nd Congress of the French Communist Party, scratched the term "dictatorship of the proletariat" from the official party charter. And had not the PCF repeatedly denounced the Soviet Union for its disregard for human rights? Indeed, since the middle 60s, the party tempered its revolutionary character to achieve greater political integration. In collaborating with the Socialists, the PCF doubled its traditional 20-per-cent working class vote and captured 49 per cent...
...very charter of the PLO denies our rights to statehood," Tamarkin said...
Seema Berquist, a senior from Annhurst College participating in her first model U.N., said William L. Tayler, a former political science professor at her college stirred interest in the model U.N. Tayler helped develop the world charter of the United Nations...
...Stansfield Turner, director of the CIA, objected in testimony to the restraints the new charter would impose, arguing that "there can arise unique circumstances in which internal relationships with members of these institutions are not only warranted but may be the only means available for accomplishing important intelligence objectives...