Word: facto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...country's most prominent left-wing tribal leader, Oginga Odinga (a member of Kenya's second-largest tribe, the Luo), who is known as "Mr. Double O," reportedly threatened to form an opposition socialist party, Moi rammed through a constitutional amendment converting K.A.N.U.'s de facto one-party rule in Kenya to formal status...
...that Britain had restored colonial rule over the Falklands. But in a message sent to Whitehall through the Swiss embassy in Buenos Aires, and relayed to London through the Swiss Foreign Ministry in Bern, Argentine Foreign Minister Juan Ramón Aguirre Lanari admitted that .here was a "de facto cessation of hostilities." The Thatcher government, faced with having to move the prisoners 8,000 miles to proper facilities in Britain, decided that Lanari's statement was concession :nough, especially when it was coupled with private assurances given to third parties that Argentina was done with fighting. Said...
...Jamaica and Brazil. As an additional guarantee of the islands' security, she may even invite certain countries to station diplomatic representatives in Port Stanley. Though Thatcher refuses to budge on the issue of British sovereignty, Whitehall hopes that at some future date the Falklands will become a de facto multinational protectorate. But if Thatcher is unsuccessful in obtaining international guarantees for the islands' status, she is prepared to defend them by leaving 3,000 troops and major elements of Britain's naval task force in the South Atlantic...
...many disabled students say they feel some compulsion involved, and fear that this amounts to de facto pre-registration for disabled students. "I think in the fall they will say 'we gave you the opportunity to name classes in the spring and this wasn't one of them,'" Rani Kronick '84, president of A Better Learning Environment (ABLE), said last week...
...been "Don't face anything until someone rubs our nose in it." It is a posture that has won no friends. A long series of mild and ineffectual rebukes to Israel-about the bombing of both the Iraqi nuclear reactor and Beirut last summer and the de facto annexation of the Golan Heights-has angered moderate Arabs far more than U.S. arms sales have soothed them. Even some American officials fear that Prime Minister Menachem Begin now believes the U.S. will do nothing to restrain Israeli actions, and that in consequence he may yet order a full-scale strike...