Word: constitutionalizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the shaky government of Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan collapsed earlier this month, civilian administration in Iran virtually ceased to exist. In its place stood a powerful, 15-member committee composed of six Islamic mullahs and seven secular figures (there are two vacancies at present) and officially called the Islamic...
Wilson said the chaplaincy in the armed services "may or may not be good policy" but added there is nothing in the constitution to prohibit its existence.
"In the history of church and state in America, it has never been the premise that the intent of the constitution is to remove the state entirely from any interest in or support of religious life," Rev. Peter T. Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, said yesterday.
Harvard is exempt from the ordinance because of its special protection under the state constitution.
News of last week's stunning breakthrough won near unanimous accolades for the man most responsible for pulling it off: Lord Carrington (see box). Paradoxically, no one greeted his accomplishment with more enthusiasm than the Rhodesian whites, whose privileges have been whittled away since the beginning of the Lancaster...