Word: governments
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...page survey evaluates the human rights practices of 162 govern ments, almost all of them members of the U.N. It is mandated by a 1976 amendment to the Foreign Assistance Act that Congress passed, over the opposition of the Ford Administration, requiring the Executive Branch to produce an annual evaluation to help Congress make decisions on foreign aid. The report is more tolerant toward the behavior of U.S. friends than that of antagonists. "With friendly countries, we prefer to use diplomacy, not public pronouncements," it says. Not surprisingly, the survey's main villains are the Soviet Union ("The status...
...flanked by seven top-ranking aides, last week put his name to a document at a ceremony he proudly called "a historic event." The moment deserved such solemn words; the Pope was promulgating a new code of canon law, to take effect Nov. 27, that is intended to govern in detail the religious practices of 796 million Roman Catholics around the world.* It is the first revision of the statutes since...
...first term was very productive, at least in terms of making rules that will govern the council in the future," said Council member Steven Rapkin...
...that some of Moyers' examples were misleading. CBS stood by the program, and Moyers has continued to jab at Reaganomics in his Evening News commentaries. In December, for example, he began an analysis with these assertions: "This country is in trouble. People are hurting. The people who govern us acknowledge the dangers, but they continue to act at odds with reality...
...really surprising when schools find, as some do, that children frequently enter not knowing some of the basic rules of living together. For all their differences, today's scofflaws are of a piece as a symptom of elementary social demoralization-the loss by individuals of the capacity to govern their own behavior in the interest of others...