Word: facto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...estimated 6 million Tibetans still follow the exiled leader, who serves as de facto political as well as spiritual leader of the tiny Himalayan mountain country. Exiled by the Chinese in 1959, the Dalai Lama has lived since in northern India...
...agreed to provide assistance in their battle against Syria. Under the terms of the agreement, Israel would not intervene directly in the conflict unless Syria used air power against the Christians. The revelations caused an outcry by the opposition, which charged that the agreement constituted a de facto peace treaty that circumvented requisite Knesset approval. TIME also learned last week that Begin, Moshe Dayan, then Foreign Minister, and Ezer Weizman, then Defense Minister, had met in Israel with Phalangist leaders as early...
...know how many read the memo." Bok justifies formally introducing the issue of technology transfer to the Faculty simultaneously with the Ptashne case by pointing out the problems with making a decision without Faculty discussion and then bringing the general issue to the body ex post facto. "I suppose one could have said something about it two years ago, but I didn't know about it two years ago," Bok adds...
...came when peasant leaders agreed to refrain from staging new protests and to recognize the leading role of the Communist Party in their forthcoming charter. Nonetheless, the accord had all the makings of a severe new headache for Warsaw: Poland's Communist leaders were faced with another de facto power center outside their control, alongside the church and the 10 million-strong trade-union federation, Solidarity...
...elicited from the West meaningful political and economic sanctions, to say nothing of military retribution. One of Brezhnev's diplomatic triumphs was the 1975 Helsinki Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe at which 35 governments, notably including the Ford Administration, ratified the postwar order in Europe. De facto, the Iron Curtain and the Brezhnev Doctrine were, and remain, very much a part of that order...