Word: council
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reference was to Articles 42 and 51 of the charter. Article 42 empowers the Security Council to authorize "demonstrations, blockade and other operations by air, sea or land forces" of member nations to restore peace and security. Article 51 recognizes "the inherent right of individual or collective self-defense if an armed attack occurs against a member of the United Nations" before the Security Council has time to respond. Under international law, an embassy is considered part of the territory of the nation maintaining that embassy; thus the Iranian seizure of the embassy in Tehran could be considered an armed...
...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 Revolutionary Council. Ayatullah Khomeini, the de facto ruler who declined to manage the government himself, gave the Council a mandate to rule Iran during a two-month transition period until the voters could approve a new theocratic constitution and elect a National Assembly and a President. Whether the internally divided Council will...
Flynn, who has sponsored similar legislation for more than a year in the council, called the permanent ban on condominium conversion "our moral obligation. When are we going to respond to this crisis?" Flynn asked. "When all the rental units are converted to condominiums and we become a city of elites...
Councilor Patrick F. McDonough, who sponsored the motion to turn the issue over to the laws and ordinance subcommittee of the Council, said the move "gives us at least a couple of weeks to consider what is a very complicated problem...
...Faculty approved the first three, on the recommendation of the Faculty Council, but refused to support establishing an appeals board or barring hearsay evidence...