Word: majority
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...English version, the U.S.-proposed wording comes first and is numbered 1, followed by the Soviet proposal, numbered 2; the Russian version has it the other way around. The brackets sometimes embrace a single word or number, sometimes a lengthy paragraph, sometimes a semantic fine point, sometimes a major issue on which ratification itself could depend. Slowly and cautiously, following detailed orders from their respective capitals, the negotiators are chipping away at the brackets that prevent the draft from being a finished treaty...
Support in Congress is broad but shallow, while opposition from the bureaucracy is focused and intense. Congressional committees have made some major changes in the bill, which is expected to reach the House floor late this week. Republicans who backed the original proposal are now offended by a provision making it easier for federal employees, who are estimated to be mostly Democrats, to engage in political activity. The White House is confident that It can live with some of the changes and persuade the full House to modify others. If victory is not exactly in sight, it is also...
...supporters were indignant at her departure. But Carter aides insisted that her chief problems were inefficiency and ineffectiveness. Said one of her former colleagues: "She lacked the self-confidence to do the job well." Moreover, Costanza clashed repeatedly with Carter on some policies. "I disagreed with him on three major issues," she said. "I was for full amnesty [for Vietnam-era deserters and draft evaders]; I was for gay rights; I was for a stronger [pro] abortion position...
...former Finnish Ambassador to Tanzania, will meet with stonewalling cynicism from whites, who fully expect him to favor the guerrillas in any disagreement. One such skeptic is Brian O'Linn, Secretary-General of the Namibia National Front, a newly formed multiracial attempt to steer between SWAPO and its major opponent, the South African-backed Democratic Turnhalle Alliance. Says O'Linn, "the deep suspicion South Africans have about the U.N. can only be alleviated. I doubt if it will ever be resolved...
...founders, who has been in the South African maximum security prison on Robben Island for the past ten years. Toivo, popular with the Ovambo tribesmen who constitute the bulk of SWAPO membership; is no friend of Nujoma's. "His big problem is that he is no longer a major force within the country," says Shipanga. "He has been too long on the outside and too reluctant to go back except at the end of a gun. He's afraid now of fighting an election because he knows he will lose...