Word: constitutionalizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That lightning move solidified Sadat's hold on the country and gave him the confidence to turn away from Nasser's sweeping pan-Arabism and to abandon his predecessor's repressive socialist state. Sadat later felt bold enough to tell colleagues that he felt Nasser had been...
In the pin-stripe halls of the Federal Reserve Building, appropriately located on Constitution Avenue and just a shadow's length from the Lincoln Memorial, the phones jangled incessantly last Wednesday evening. Aides to Chairman Arthur Burns listened, amazed and amused.
Entering his coronation palace-actually, a sports arena disguised with flowers and rich draperies-Emperor Bokassa looked cool and calm. He wore a white robe set off with two striped sashes in the C.A.E.'s national colors (blue, white, green, yellow and red) and a wreath of golden laurel...
Says Craig Claiborne, food editor of the New York Times: "Gourmet cooking at home is a movement that has arrived. Samuel Johnson's statement, 'A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner,' is suddenly becoming true in America. People are much more serious...
The Revolution's most important reform in the last few years has been the increased emphasis on mass organizations: the women's and students' organizations, the trade unions, and the block groups, or Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR's). Under the new Constitution adopted last year, these...