Word: facto
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Following the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy '40. McCormack served for 13 months as both speaker and de facto vice-president under President Lyndon B. Johnson. "Though McCormack was overshadowed by Rayburn and Johnson, he was an effective...
...last to accept the existence of Israel "within secure and recognized boundaries," if Israel would agree to similar recognition of a Palestinian state. Said Uri Avnery, a prominent leftist member of the Knesset: "This has been in the works for years. It was a minor breakthrough in the de facto recognition of Israel by the P.L.O...
...prices. Among them: the establishment of more representative trade unions and the building of a monument to the 49 Gdansk workers killed during the 1970 riots. Seeking to avoid another bloody confrontation, officials at first showed a surprising willingness to negotiate, even at the risk of conferring a de facto legitimacy on the right to strike. Hours after the Gdansk action began, the state-controlled press reported that the government had offered a $40-a-month pay increase, a sum the strikers rejected. But official patience appeared to fray as the strike spread. Shortly after Gierek returned from a visit...
...agricultural system that, unlike the Soviet model, leaves 75% of the country's farms in private hands. Last week, under pressure from a wave of peaceful but illegal strikes in factories across the country, Party Leader Edward Gierek seemed to be heading toward another ideological compromise: de facto recognition of an amorphous independent trade-union movement...
...said one Phalangist leader, is "to liberate the rest of the country." That sounded like a prescription for a return to civil war. Muslim groups feared that the Phalangists might put new pressure on the feeble regime of President Elias Sarkis for a de facto partition of the country. As for the Palestine Liberation Organization, whose headquarters are in Beirut, it regarded the events of last week as tantamount to "a declaration of war on the Palestinians...