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Laos' de facto legislature has been the Joint National Political Council, headed by the dynamic titular head of the Pathet Lao, "Red Prince" Souphanouvong, 62, who is Souvanna's half brother. Leftists in the Vientiane government have been steadily tightening their control of key ministries (such as Information and Foreign Affairs) and have triggered disruptive strikes by teachers, police and municipal employees...
PERHAPS THE MOST interesting and provocative points in the entire plan concern the Palestinians. Hoffmann calls for self-determination for Palestinians on the West Bank and in Gaza, and says that Israel should be prepared to negotiate withdrawal from the West Bank with the PLO and thereby obtain de facto recognition. His notion, though somewhat ambiguous in the article, is for a Palestinian state on the West Bank, perhaps in Gaza. Thus he wants Israel to relinquish territory to the PLO for the creation of a Palestinian State, but does not demand that such a state, at the outset, recognize...
What many CHUL members do not want to face is that the University currently has a de facto double-standard House system, despite the 1972 merger agreement, which specifically calls for a unified House...
...know that there are gray areas in the law relating to intelligence that need clarification. Ex post facto laws are an abomination, and this committee is not a court. Its purpose is to conduct a searching review of what may have gone amiss, with the objective of strengthening the law so that any misdeeds do not occur again...
...would be diverting funds from urgent social projects if they wasted money on modern armaments. Using its dominant position in the hemisphere, the U.S. limited purchases by the Latins to World War II-vintage weaponry. By the mid-1960s, the larger Latin American countries were chafing under this de facto arms embargo. In 1968 Peru triggered what became a continentwide