Word: dos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such hairsplitting is sure to keep judges, local politicians, priests and rabbis scratching their heads over Yuletide and Hanukkah dos and don'ts for many holidays to come. But far more than cradles and reindeer is at stake after last week's decision. The creche and menorah case, County of Allegheny v. A.C.L.U., saw the emergence of an outspoken bloc of four conservative Justices, just one vote shy of a majority, who are openly intent on challenging long-established views on the separation between church and state. The creche dissent in the Allegheny decision brought together Justices Anthony Kennedy, Antonin...
...hours last week, all the insults seemed forgotten. At the end of the one-day summit, attended by 17 other African leaders, the Angolans announced that they had agreed to a cease-fire and the opening of peace talks. Said Dos Santos: "We have taken the first step...
With the departure of Cuban and South African forces under way, Dos Santos offered amnesty and "reintegration" to UNITA's 75,000 guerrilla fighters -- with the notable exception of their commander. Savimbi pledged to keep fighting until Dos Santos accepted his demands for a multiparty state and free elections in which UNITA could take part...
...talks, said afterward that Savimbi would leave Angola for voluntary exile. Other participants doubted that, however, assuming that Savimbi would want to stay on the scene to keep UNITA alive as a political movement. The biggest obstacle to a final agreement may arise if Dos Santos remains determined to preserve Angola's Marxist one-party system and his control of that system...
...Joaquim Chissano in Mozambique, another war-torn former Portuguese colony, is reportedly ready to open negotiations with the insurgents of the Mozambique National Resistance, a brutal movement whose 14-year antigovernment campaign has laid waste to the economy and killed thousands of civilians. Chissano was among those who persuaded Dos Santos to talk peace with UNITA -- and may wind up taking his own advice...