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...ould the natural law thinkers simply acceptthe separation of law and morals? I think not...Ibelieve they would then substitute a concept oflaw which a priori included moral standards, or atleast reference to acceptance by the majority,"Souter wrote about the naturalists...
...remove its member from the board unless the ACSR made democratic reforms. Each group of affiliates must hold democratic elections. Student and faculty votes must be taken campus-wide, and alumni and as-yet-unrepresented staff should be polled. The ACSR's recommendations might ormight not change, but theyw ould at least be fair and representative of the board's constituency, and activists would have a forum to voice concerns without having to resort to Luddite tactics. The University could still dispose of the recommendations as it pleased, but every time it so, it would be fighting the majority...
...important concession from Sadat: if, as expected, the United Nations Security Council does not approve an international peace-keeping force to patrol the Sinai Peninsula after Israel completes its withdrawal next year, U.S. troops will be permititted to help patrol the area. Haig assured Sadat that the American troops ould make up no more than half of the 2,000-to 4,000-man force and would not be deployed elsewhere in the Middle East...
When the four-day summit convened last week, there were some inevitable absentees. Mauritania's President Moktar Ould Daddah, for instance, had been overthrown by a military coup shortly before he was supposed to leave for Nouakchott Airport to catch a plane to Khartoum. Libya's Muammar Gaddafi, as usual, preferred to stay home, sending in his place a quarrelsome delegation that threw the sessions into an occasional uproar by picking fights with neighboring Chad. Nonetheless, 35 leaders of the OAU's 49 member states were on hand, the largest muster in the organization's history...
...broadcast: Go home. A political storm had blown up in the hot Sahara wind. Shortly afterward, as army Land Rovers equipped with machine guns appeared on street corners, the nature of the tempest became clear. Officers of the 15,000-man Mauritanian army, led by Lieut. Colonel Mustapha Ould Mohammed Salek, 42, had overthrown the regime of President Moktar Ould Daddah, 53, the mild-mannered strongman who had ruled the poverty-stricken country of 1.5 million Muslims since it gained independence from France...