Word: documentation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Turkey has been sitting on a pending military treaty with the U.S. for nearly a year, refusing to ratify the document until it is satisfied that Congress will deliver the $913 million in military and economic aid promised by the Reagan Administration negotiators. The stalling tactic has so far not significantly impaired operations at more than two dozen U.S. military installations in the country...
Robins says that in September 1986 her supervisor met with several employees in her section and asked them to claim that she had called staff meetings after work hours without authorizing overtime pay. They were told at a second meeting, she says, to submit slips to document the alleged overtime. One employee, Ria Solomon, refused, protesting that there had been no unauthorized late meetings. Solomon contends that she was then harassed by her supervisors and was fired last...
...white book created a split within Austria's coalition government. The Socialist Party resisted printing or distributing the work as an official document. It was finally published by a private firm...
...document, adopted unanimously by the board but not completed until after adjournment of the bishops' annual meeting, took a number of prelates by surprise. Some were appalled; others found the text woefully fuzzy. Early off the mark was John Cardinal O'Connor of New York City, who called the document a "grave mistake." O'Connor, a leader of the conservative, Rome-oriented wing of U.S. Catholicism and the only clergyman on President Reagan's AIDS commission, complained that it had caused "serious confusion" among Catholics and in the press. Conservative Cardinals John Krol of Philadelphia and Bernard Law of Boston...
Support for the new stand came from Joseph Bernardin of Chicago, the only Cardinal on the bishops' administrative board and a member of the panel that drafted the document. Bernardin, the chief spokesman of the more liberal wing of the U.S. hierarchy, said he was "pleased" with the new policy because it is "faithful to the Catholic doctrinal and moral tradition, and it is sensitive to the human dimensions of the issue...