Word: council
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Council on Foreign Relations have made perfectly clear their desire to have the Shah here." Such pressure not withstanding, the State Department flatly insisted last week that the purloined cables reflected the dialogue and debate of policymakers, and not established policy. The Administration's decision to admit the Shah temporarily for treatment, they said, was based on humanitarian grounds and nothing else...
...conferred by phone several times during the day with top advisers, including Vance and Brzezinski. The President was grim-faced when he arrived at the White House at 8:15 Monday morning; he promised newsmen a statement, but then decided to wait for further developments. Meanwhile, the National Security Council went into almost continuous session. Initially, Washington had been relieved to receive Prime Minister Bazargan's promise that he was ready to help. But Bazargan's position was weak?much weaker, perhaps, than Washington had realized...
Although he dutifully supported the Ayatullah, Bazargan was strongly devoted to human rights, democracy and moderation. His resignation will reinforce the power of the ruling clergy, many of whom do not share his concern. The Bazargan government will be replaced by the Revolutionary Council, the quasi-legislative body of 15 members that Khomeini appointed while in exile in France last November. During the revolution the council quickly took over the levers of power ?the network of komitehs, the revolutionary tribunals that have since ordered the execution of more than 600 people, and the Islamic guards. Now it will take...
...continuing guerrilla war in Kurdistan would be disastrously expensive for Tehran and agreed to send four Cabinet ministers to negotiate with the Kurdish rebels. Khomeini said last week that he wanted the mission to continue. But the danger is that, with Bazargan gone, hard liners on the Revolutionary Council might be tempted to try for a quick military solution, thereby inflaming the Kurds once more. That in turn could lead to interference by neighboring Iraq, which has a substantial and equally restless Kurdish population...
Perhaps the most drastically changed city government is the one in Houston. Under prodding from the U.S. Department of Justice, which has been hearing loud complaints about discrimination from the oil capital's black and Hispanic minorities, Houston shifted from a city council of eight members, all elected at large, to one of 14 members, with nine chosen from separate districts and the remainder chosen at large. Blacks thereby increased their representation from one to three, and State Representative Ben Reyes became Houston's first Mexican-American councilman. In addition, three women stand a chance of winning runoff...