Word: partially
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Technically, the court's vote was unanimous: 8 to 0 (the newest Justice, John Paul Stevens, did not participate in the decision). Actually, it was anything but. In a case involving nine major questions and 19 subquestions of constitutional law, there were five partial dissents. Nonetheless, the court under Chief Justice Warren Burger managed to reach decisions that will influence American politics, and the campaign ahead, in numerous ways. Items...
Associate Justice Byron White, who wrote a partial dissent opposing this part of the court's ruling, raised an intriguing question. "Let us suppose that each of two brothers spends one million dollars on TV spot announcements ... urging the election of the same candidate in identical words," said White. "One brother has sought and obtained approval of the candidate; the other has not. The former may validly be prosecuted ... under the court's view, the latter may not, even though the candidate could scarcely help knowing about and appreciating the expensive favor...
...country, requires an uncompromising stand. Though Pretoria has announced the biggest reserve call-up since World War II, State President Nicolaas Didderichs told Parliament at week's end that armed force can bring no lasting solution in Angola, leading to speculation that South Africa might make a partial troop withdrawal...
...Egyptian policy of seeking peace on the installment plan with Israel. "Syria has realized an important political achievement for the Palestinian cause," proclaimed the Damascus newspaper Al Thawra. "The Security Council's resolution was a defeat for the step-by-step diplomacy and the policy of bilateral and partial solutions." Syrian Defense Minister Major-General Moustafa Tlas also gratuitously sneered at the Egyptian-Israeli accord on the Sinai. "The Egyptian administration regained a few kilometers of land," he said, "where troops armed with rifles only can enter. But the Egyptian army cannot take up positions in the strategic Sinai...
President Costa Gomes lifted the partial siege that he had imposed on Lisbon during the rebellion, even though military authorities continued to look for 30,000 or so weapons that leftist soldiers claim to have stolen from arsenals and distributed to their civilian allies. Roadblocks were thrown up around the country, and cars were searched. Despite these efforts, however, only some 200 weapons had been recovered by week...