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...MIDDLE EAST CONFLICT: Mexico has taken no specific position on the Middle East conflict nor on the question of the sale of oil by Arab countries, although we benefit from the prices established by OPEC. However, we espouse the thesis of the Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States [which Mexico sponsored in the United Nations].* This is really a proposition for a world of cooperation, a pacifist document to establish cooperation between the big industrial countries and the nonindustrialized ones...
...charter, which recognizes every nation's sovereignty over its natural resources and economic activities, was approved by the General Assembly in December by a vote...
...bestsellers by taking just such a view, each portraying the revered Thomas Jefferson and George Washington in a new and unflattering light. Last week Virginius Dabney, a proud Virginian, historian and retired editor of the Richmond Times-Dispatch, came to the defense of the founding fathers in an outspoken Charter Day address at Virginia's venerable College of William and Mary. He sharply assailed Fawn Brodie, author of Thomas Jefferson, An Intimate History, and Gore Vidal, who wrote the historical novel Burr, for pretending to sound scholarship...
Councilor David A. Wylie, who voted against the order, said last night that it "doesn't seem consonant" with the charter of the city government that vests all control over city appointees with the city manager...
...million on the property, Wasserman had more in mind than the soon-to-be-evicted tenants on many of his property holdings. He wanted high-rise condominiums erected on his land and to get permission to build them he needed not just down-zoning, but a whole new zoning charter. Wasserman applied for and was granted the unprecedented changes by the Zoning Board of Appeals. The Boston Phoenix reported in 1971 that Crane pushed Wasserman's projects so vigorously that he "forced out a member of the planning board that opposed a Wasserman zoning request." The Phoenix went...