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...rationale for putting them there. Shortly before the signing of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, the Security Council of the United Nations passed Resolution 255 (June 19, 1968) which obliges the Soviets, the United States and Britain to provide immediate assistance or support in accordance with the United Nations Charter to any non-nuclear weapon treaty country that is victim of nuclear aggression or the threat of such aggression...
Moncreiff said he exercised his charter right with a "good deal of emotion and pain," but nevertheless wanted the issue approached with sense...
...amendment to the Cambridge city ordinances that would place a minimum on the number of policemen on patrol met with the exercise of Councillor Robert Moncreiff's charter right. The move will delay any adoption of the amendment until next week's council meeting, where it will be reconsidered...
...voice of the towerman at Lod Airport broke suddenly last week as he passed along that seemingly routine flight clearance to a visiting Swiss pilot. The controller could hardly be blamed for the unprofessional display of emotion. The jet that he was routing was a Swiss DC-9 on charter to the International Red Cross. Shortly before takeoff, a convoy of 18 Israeli ambulances with red Star of David markings drew alongside the jet, owned by a charter company called Balair. Slowly, in some cases painfully, 44 men walked or were carried aboard. Those on stretchers wore green pajamas...
Drafting a constitution-a task Sanya has entrusted to a broad-based committee of judges, lawyers and law professors-will not be all that easy. Any new political charter for Thailand must assign an important role to its very popular King, even though Bhumibol personally desires little political power. (In fact, the King has hinted that he is even uncomfortable about the role he was forced to play in ousting the former leaders.) A new constitution must not only exclude the military from politics but must also create a government so stable that the military will not be tempted...