Word: documenting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Papadopoulos tried to persuade some of the young officers who brought him to power to agree to make public a new constitution for Greece. So far, Papadopoulos, who is now Greece's junta-appointed Premier, has twice been forced to set back the scheduled release date of the document. Even if he manages to present it to the Greek public this week, the delays underscore the private power struggles that tear at the shadowy revolutionary council, whose 38 or so members make the major government decisions. Papadopoulos is pressing his cause with a special urgency. Worried about the feuding...
...believe that the revolution has not yet accomplished its task, bitterly oppose retaining any vestige of royalty. Papadopoulos may prevail upon them to let him bring out the proposed constitution, which he hopes to submit to a public vote on Sept. 1. Even so, he can hardly expect the document to afford him much more protection than the earlier one gave former Premier Panayotis Kanellopoulos, when Papadopoulos decided to have him arrested. He is still under house arrest...
...Johnson had considered vetoing the bill, but was assured by eleven governmental departments whose advice he had requested that most sections would hold up under constitutional law. Only four hours and 46 minutes before midnight, when the bill would have become law automatically, he finally signed the 110-page document with the resigned comment: "This measure contains more good than...
...National Assembly chamber parted to reveal King Bhumibol Adulyadej seated on a special gold en throne beneath the traditional nine-tiered umbrella. The King, wearing a white military dress uniform, sat silently while a court official read the royal proclamation. Then he slowly signed three copies of the document, handwritten by official scribes and stamped with the royal seal. As he did so, a 21 -gun salute sounded outside, planes of the Royal Thai Air Force dropped flowers, rice and popcorn, and the gongs and drums of dozens of Buddhist temples reverberated across Bangkok...
Among the 96 passengers debarking at Heathrow Airport from BEA's Lisbon-London Flight 75 was Ramon George Sneyd, who went to the Commonwealth immigration desk and presented his Canadian passport. The immigration official took one look at the document, then asked the bespectacled Sneyd to join him in a back room for some "routine" questions. The interrogation was far from routine. Sneyd was found to be packing a loaded pistol in his back pocket, plus another Canadian passport. And when Scotland Yard's crack detective Tommy Butler took over, the alert immigration official's original suspicions...