Word: charter
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...Knesset could ratify it by Thursday. Israel would then have ten days to execute the redeployment from Hebron. Under eleventh-hour negotiation is the language of a series of "notes for the record," which codify each side's remaining obligations on issues ranging from changes to the PLO charter to the opening of a "safe passage" between the West Bank and Gaza. Still resisting all attempts at negotiation are the passionate critics in Netanyahu?s own government. The closer he moves to Arafat, the more tenuous is his control...
Glennon also informed us that the U.N. charter provides for a supranational police force which would undertake peacekeeping missions. I had always assumed the isolationist fears of an international army that did not operate under U.S. supervision were paranoid fantasies, but I didn't know that such an army was, in fact, the brainchild and fondest hope of those who founded...
EDUCATION Backs increased public-school choice, including more publicly funded but independent "charter schools" but opposes vouchers for private schools. Has called for a $43-billion plan of tax credits and deductions to make college more affordable...
BORN: Dec. 6, 1932, Boise, Idaho EDUCATION: U of Southern California, B.A., 1961; U of Utah, M.S.W., 1964; Arizona State U, C.P.M, 1979. FAMILY: Wife, Jennie RELIGION: Protestant MILITARY: Army, 1950-53, 1954-57 OCCUPATION: Management consultant; professor POLITICAL CAREER: Maricopa County charter government commissioner, 1995-96 ADDRESS: 1525 N. Central, Phoenix...
...flee to South Florida, and the Administration began discouraging more escapees by detaining the rafters indefinitely at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The core group urged Clinton to punish Havana by halting airline flights to Cuba, but State Department moderates lobbied to maintain informal exchanges, including charter flights. Morton Halperin, the National Security Council's point man on Cuba, circulated a draft presidential speech offering carrots to Castro if he adopted reforms. Hard-liners, led by the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Latin America, Michael Skol, allied themselves with the core group and launched a guerrilla...