Word: council
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...city has been taking a lot of flack from Protestant groups and the Massachusetts Civil Liberties Union for offering to finance even part of the Pope's multi-million dollar visit. The groups insisted that the city not pay for the papal Mass on Boston Common. The City Council, however, granted $750,000 for the Pontiff's overnight stay...
Although Bok declined to comment on this question, and indeed on the entire program, a representative from the Ford Foundation said Bishop Desmond Tutu, secretary-general of the South African Council of Churches, is organizing a committee to take note of "the needs of black South Africans" and to help develop a scholarship program. President Bok, coincidentally, gave an honorary degree to Tutu last June...
...following day, the Boston City Council approved a $750,000 budget to provide police protection and traffic coordination to handle the one million people expected to attend the ceremony...
Further, new elections would open up a number of controversies left over from last April. Muzorewa's rival Reverend Ndabaningi Sithole has charged that the elections were rigged, and one-time ally James Chikerema has split from the Bishop's United African Council party to form his own splinter faction. Quarrels about whether tribal loyalties unduly influenced some of Muzorewa's appointments are also certain to arise...
...election period, is in no position to try to force Israel to turn autonomy into a prelude to self-determination, and because Egypt, primarily concerned with the return of the Sinai, will probably ask for little more in the occupied territories than the creation of an administrative council with limited powers--the rest being up to the Palestinians themselves...