Word: establish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Somoza and demanded that he and his family leave the country. It further proposed-when Somoza is gone-a provisional democratic junta and offered three possible "representatives": Industrialist Alfonso Robelo Callejas, 38, Lawyer-Writer Sergio Ramirez Mercado, 36, and Lawyer Rafael Córdova Rivas, 54, who had helped establish the foremost anti-Somoza political coalition, UDEL (Democratic Liberation Union...
...very happy. Senators will have cleared their desks of a major legislative headache which has dawdled in the halls of the Capitol for the past 17 months. President Carter, fresh from a week of possible triumph at Camp David, will have won a major victory in his fight to establish a national energy policy. And our anxious European neighbors will be reassured that America is serious about streamlining its wasteful patterns of energy consumption, and shoring up the declining dollar...
...signed last week by President Anwar Sadat of Egypt and Prime Minister Menacham Begin of Israel, calls for, among other things, a five-year transition period in the West Bank and Sinai, leading to full autonomy for the predominantly Arab inhabitants. Other provisions include Israel's promise not to establish any new settlements during the negotiations, and the right of inhabitants of the West Bank and the Sinai to elect representatives to the peace negotiations...
...dissent and documented reports of torture led Amnesty International in 1975 to conclude that "no country in the world has a worse record in human rights than Iran." The Shah's instinctive dislike of democracy led him that same year to end the country's two-party system and establish the Rastakhiz (National Resurgence Party) as Iran's sole political organization...
...force that might be stationed in Sinai, Gaza and West Bank buffer zones. Another possibility would be to send U.S. civilians to man strategic monitoring stations in the West Bank, just as some 200 Americans now do in the Sinai. Finally, the U.S. might be willing to establish an air or naval base in Egypt or Israel. Not only would this dramatically symbolize the American commitment to the area's stability but it would also provide the U.S. with an enhanced strategic reach at a time when the U.S.S.R. has been increasing its activity on the rim of the Middle...