Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kirk, a Washington attorney who is a longtime friend of Kennedy's, started coordinating campaign activities. Young activists with dreams of Camelot II sought him out for jobs. One of the dilemmas facing a Kennedy campaign is what to do about all the earnest amateurs who have started draft-Kennedy movements around the country. As an experienced professional wedded to the old ways of doing business, Kennedy wants to place professionals in charge of local groups, but he does not want to bruise feelings. The draft movements also offer financial advantages. As long as they are not personally connected...
Khomeini's plans for the constitutional justification of his religious regime also continued apace. An elected 70-member Assembly of Experts has been slowly poring over a new draft constitution that would codify the religious transformation of Iranian life and bestow overwhelming power on the country's religious leaders. Though it has passed only 23 of 151 proposed articles so far, the Assembly approved the most pivotal provision: Article 5, which would lay the legal ground for the establishment of a Shi'ite Muslim theocracy Specifically, the article upholds the principle Velayat-e-faqih, the theologians...
Other articles of the draft constitution which is virtually certain to be adopted by popular referendum after the Assembly of Experts is finished scrutinizing it are intended to Islamize all aspects of social life. Article 22, for example, would make Arabic, the language of the Koran, compulsory in all secondary schools...
...traces of secularism will be removed from the draft constitution," says a member of Khomeini's secretive Islamic Revolutionary Council. "We cannot do otherwise without violating our popular mandate...
...General World Administrative Radio Conference (WARC) met in Geneva on Monday to draft a treaty regulating the use of air waves...