Word: provisos
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...generals are not expected to bite. "Short of overthrowing the government again, which they're very unlikely to attempt, the military is unlikely to have much leverage over Pinochet's fate," says McGirk. His best hopes, once again, are the doctors, since the Chilean judges' decision rests on the proviso that he be examined to establish his fitness to stand trial. But given the fact that Chile has a much higher threshold for ruling a suspect unfit to stand trial, General Pinochet may find that he'd have been better off remaining in Britain...
Such an approach is not without its drawbacks, however. The reforms only passed with the concession that women, upon divorce, must return to their husbands any property they received at marriage--a proviso that was justified by the prophet Muhammad's decision to allow a woman to leave her marriage if she returned a garden she had been given by her husband. Moreover, men will retain the right to appeal a divorce indefinitely. Yet while such compromises may be undesirable from an purely egalitarian standpoint, it would be apt for those with a vested interest in change to realize that...