Word: documented
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Late last week, after a marathon session lasting into the early hours of Saturday morning, the Revolutionary Council delivered its new policies in a 15-page communiqué. While the document clearly tightened the military's control, particularly over the media, it seemed designed to effect a compromise among the increasingly polarized political factions. The Council endorsed "the very valuable role" of the political parties and reiterated its commitment to pluralistic democracy. But it rejected the Socialists' bid to enlarge the powers of the Constituent Assembly, which is limited to framing a new constitution. In a gesture...
...thirds majority in Parliament to elect a replacement President to a full term. To Greece's parliamentary opposition, led by the Center Union-New Forces Party's George Mavros, it seems tailor-made for the paternalistic, De Gaulle-like Caramanlis, as do other articles in the document. Some of the most controversial provisions...
...Politics. New President Tsatsos, who drafted much of the document, explains that "it is a Greek constitution. It provides flexibility for our psychological dispositions. If a government receives a vote of confidence, there will be no more votes of confidence for six months so that Parliament can tend to its business." As for the power to dissolve Parliament, Tsatsos argues, "the people are the check. If the President misuses his power and cannot win a majority in the election he must call, he will be out of politics...
...Harper's April issue and has now been published in hard cover by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The book was meant to be a scathing indictment of modern art in general and of American painting and its social milieu in particular. Instead, it emerges as a curious document of frustration: the dandy as Archie Bunker...
Nowhere in the Declaration of Independence does the word nation appear. The title of the final version described the document as "the unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united [small] States of America." There was no one capital city against which the British could aim a mortal blow. During the first five years of the War for Independence, British troops occupied every one of the most populous towns (Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Charleston) without decisive effect on the war's outcome...