Word: directing
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...decision was based on a New Jersey state law that forbids discrimination in places of public accommodation, so it does not have any direct effect on Harvard's nine all-male final clubs, legal experts said...
Tambs, who was ambassador to Costa Rica from 1985 until last January and is now a history professor at Arizona State University, gave the committees the first direct evidence of a State Department official helping the rebels during the two-year congressional ban on U.S. military aid to the Contras...
Chun's critics, who for years have called for the direct election of the President, were outraged. Kim Young Sam, one of two leaders of the principal minority party, pointed out that Chun won the presidency in 1981 with 92% of the vote in an election boycotted by the opposition. Demanded Kim: "How much difference is there between that election and those of ((Communist)) North Korea, whose leader usually receives 98% to 99% of the votes?" In an interview with TIME, Kim declared, "We will certainly boycott the next presidential election if it is held under the old system...
Chun apparently chose to act in April at least in part because the opposition was in disarray. Unwilling to compromise on the issue of direct presidential elections, Kim Young Sam and his primary opposition partner, Kim Dae Jung, broke with the New Korea Democratic Party and formed a new group, the Reunification Democratic Party. Most antigovernment legislators decided to follow suit, quickly making the R.D.P. the primary opposition party, with 67 seats in the 276-member National Assembly. But the regrouping nonetheless served to splinter Chun's critics further...
Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi decided last week that he was not going to take it anymore. Frustrated by the failure of the state government in Punjab to check terrorism in the troubled region, Gandhi dismissed the state's chief minister and imposed direct rule by the central government in New Delhi. This is the second time in four years that the federal administration has removed an elected government in Punjab in order to combat Sikh extremists...