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...charter makes bows to such Western-style rights as freedom of the press and political parties. It also endorses equal rights ("There is no distinction on grounds of race, color, language or creed. Men and women have equality before the law"). Yet in each case there is a variation of an important proviso: these freedoms will operate only if "Islamic principles of the Republic are not flouted." As one Tehran resident acerbically put it, "The new charter creates the world's only 20th century theocratic nation...
...stickers and parades, Cantabrigians will honor Cambridge's 350th birthday. Actually, it's the 346th--the city founded in 1630 as Newtowne changed its name to honor the English college town on the banks of the Cam the same year that the Great and General Court granted Harvard its charter...
...demonstrations that led to the Shah's downfall). The second was on Sunday, when Iranians were to vote on a new constitution that would make Khomeini in effect dictator of the country. With the Imam flatly declaring that it was every Iranian's religious duty to vote for the charter, the outcome of the referendum was a foregone conclusion...
...established in 1970 under the Resolution of Rights and Responsibilities to try student demonstrators involved in the spring 1969 strike. Clearly, its present use is limited, having heard no cases since 1975. But the CRR's vaguely worded charter leaves room for the violation of a student's right to political protest...
...reference was to Articles 42 and 51 of the charter. Article 42 empowers the Security Council to authorize "demonstrations, blockade and other operations by air, sea or land forces" of member nations to restore peace and security. Article 51 recognizes "the inherent right of individual or collective self-defense if an armed attack occurs against a member of the United Nations" before the Security Council has time to respond. Under international law, an embassy is considered part of the territory of the nation maintaining that embassy; thus the Iranian seizure of the embassy in Tehran could be considered an armed...