Word: constitutionalizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Stephen V.R. Winthrop '80, former chairman of the assembly, said last night he has collected more than 200 petition signatures asking the assembly to hold a binding referendum that could ban students who are members of Harvard political parties from running for election to the assembly. The referendum question passed...
With the March 30 referendum on the creation of an Islamic republic drawing near, the Ayatullah has rejected the proposed constitution written by a group of lawyers at Bazargan's request. He prefers the strongly Islamic draft constitution put together by a group of his aides. The task of...
On the twelfth anniversary of the death of Mossadegh, the nationalist Prime Minister who forced the Shah to briefly flee Iran before being toppled by a CIA-assisted coup in 1953, a crowd including many Khomeini critics gathered in Ahmadabad (pop. 800), 60 miles northwest of Tehran. At a rally...
The religious leaders' hardening determination to reign-and the spreading uneasiness about this among their erstwhile allies against the Shah-promises trouble. One respected Iranian political analyst, Fariborz Atapour, has forecast that a civil war will begin within two weeks. Writing in the daily Tehran Journal, he complained, "We...
In Washington last week Assistant Secretary of State Richard Moose explained the Administration's position to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, in response to a proposal by two Senators that the U.S. send observers to monitor the Rhodesian vote. Moose said that the U.S. opposed the election because the...