Word: charter
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...have come to grips with this," he says. Yet Nelson is an optimist. He believes in his fellow African Americans. "I know how great we can be." He adds, "This is a great nation, but this could be a greater nation if we could only live up to the charter of the U.S. Constitution--that all men are created equal...
History, that insufferable know-it-all, has its noble brow furrowed. While noting much to commend in the way this lofty experiment has played out, it finds the U.N.'s charter conference an affair doomed by internal contradictions. Haunted by the disaster of appeasement, the framers assumed all humanity would rally behind the rescue of any country, no matter how remote the peril to any other country's vital interest. They believed each government would surrender at any time its warmaking powers to a supranational force. They provided not at all for conflicts within nations, and they considered open debate...
...hijackings, bombings, murders and kidnappings throughout the 1970s. In 1974, Arafat appeared before the U.N. General Assembly with his machine gun strapped to his waist. He refused to recognize U.N. Resolution 242, that which planned out the basis for Middle East peace negotiations. He remained loyal to a charter which recognized the State of Israel as "null and void" and insisted that "armed struggle is the only way to liberate Palestine." This was his ideology, and according to the guidelines of these principles did he govern himself and the organization which he led. That the P.L.O. in general and Arafat...
...some cases the creation of additional "coordinating layers" of bureaucracy--which should be no surprise, given the U.N.'s peculiar structure and how it grew. None of the specialized agencies is even formally part of the central U.N., the organs (Security Council, General Assembly, Secretariat) created by the 1945 charter. Most, such as the World Health Organization (WHO), were set up later as separate organizations with their own charters, assemblies and staffs. They are tied into a "U.N. system" by agreements negotiated with the central U.N. that are considered to be like treaties. The agreements grant the central...
According to the JCB's charter, the committee can "examine," "review," "recommend" and "provide guidance" on a wide array of benefits policies, including "existing programs...