Word: facto
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...Alexander Haig this week flies to the Middle East on a trip that was delayed last month by the imposition of martial law in Poland. His visit to Israel is also a fence-mending mission, an effort to repair some of the damage caused by Israel's de facto annexation last month of the Golan Heights, which Israel seized from Syria in the 1967 Six-Day War. When the Reagan Administration criticized the Israeli action, Prime Minister Menachem Begin lashed out at Washington, accusing the U.S. of treating Israel like "a banana republic...
Omar Torrijos Herrera, 52, an ebullient soldier who, after leading a 1968 coup, became Panama's de facto strongman, though he served as official chief of government only from 1972 to 1978. A mystery figure of no known ideology but possessing formidable political ability, he employed shrewd negotiating skills and a talent for manipulating volatile nationalist sentiment to bring about the 1977-78 treaties restoring the Panama Canal Zone to his country's sovereignty...
...dead or at least dying. Our plan recognizes the right of Israel to exist only after, the acceptance of a Palestinian state, the return to the 1967 borders and an end to the state of belligerency. If these conditions are met, then the recognition of Israel will be de facto. How can we deny them that right...
...federal Liberals for all but a few months in the past 14 years, has long dreamed of enshrining a civil Bill of rights together with a constitution the country can call its own. As it stands, the British North America Act of 1867 acts as Canada's de facto constitution...
Lebanon had been relatively quiet since July 24, when U.S. Special Envoy Philip Habib helped to arrange a de facto cease-fire between Israel and the P.L.O. But last week, in addition to the bombings, there were other ominous rumblings. Israeli jets flying routine reconnaissance missions over Beirut and southern Lebanon were fired upon by the P.L.O., and Israeli military officials charged that the Palestinians were moving new military equipment into the south in violation of the ceasefire. The cauldron of Lebanon seemed set to begin boiling yet again...