Word: commonwealth
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...have met with NATO leaders in Europe, the Commonwealth heads of government in New Delhi, as well as Japanese and Chinese leaders, and most recently with President Reagan in Washington. I shared with them my conviction that we cannot hope to see real progress in the negotiations for arms control and disarmament until there is an injection of high-level political energy into these negotiations and into the East-West relationship itself...
Even Thatcher's sturdy friendship with Ronald Reagan suffered strains when American troops invaded Grenada, a Commonwealth member. The Prime Minister asked the President by telephone not to go through with the operation; afterward, she uttered her harshest words yet about the U.S. Said Thatcher: "If you are going to pronounce a new law that wherever Communism reigns against the will of the people the United States shall enter, then we are going to have some really terrible wars." She opposed U.S. reprisal attacks in Lebanon, where Britain had contributed 100 men to the 6,000-member Multi-National...
Equally precarious is the fledgling government of Sir Paul Scoon, the island's Governor-General. Two weeks ago, Antony Rushford, a Briton who was appointed by the Commonwealth to be Scoon's legal adviser, abruptly left Grenada after attacking the Governor-General as "quite unfit" to help restore democracy to the island. The leaders of Grenada's nine-member interim advisory council, which will administer the country until elections can be held, admit that they may be dangerously out of touch with some of their poorer countrymen who benefited from Bishop's rule. "The revolution...
...thresh out the problems of their succession. At stake is the introduction of a democratic system to replace the institutions that were swept away in the tempest of dictatorship, socialist revolution and armed upheaval that has racked Grenada in recent years. Scoon's legal adviser, Commonwealth Constitutional Scholar Antony Rushford, says that Grenada's British-style Independence Constitution of 1973 will be revived in stages, returning the island to a two-house parliamentary system and a majority-elected Prime Minister. Trouble is, the island's political parties are, according to one high-ranking U.S. official there...
Because the actual licensing process is controlled by the Commonwealth, the nine-member body asked City Councilor Russel B. Higley to draw up a "home rule" petition to be submitted to the state legislature for final approval...