Word: provisos
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There was something in the resolution for everyone: for the liberals, the call for suspension of the bombings; for the moderates, the proviso that Hanoi and Peking would have to make concessions too; for the conservatives, the support for American presence in South Vietnam. In the end it passed almost unanimously...
Defensive Proviso. Like many divorced couples, Malaysia and Singapore have been getting on better since the separation than before. Though now independent, Singapore honored its defense commitments by sending half of its two-battalion army to replace a Malaysian detachment in Borneo, thus demolishing whatever prospects Singapore may have had of reconciliation with Indonesia. Singapore's Defense Minister Goh Keng Swee declared: "Our defense is indivisible," and Malaysian Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman clapped him on the back, saying, "We will do or die together." Ministers of the two states are holding a series of meetings on economic cooperation...
What debate there was centered on the bill's capital-punishment proviso. Noting that he would vote against the bill, California Democrat Phillip Burton explained that while he supported the purpose of the law, "my conscience requires that I oppose the imposition of the death penalty even in this most serious of crimes." Against that, North Carolina Democrat Basil Whitener said: "If any of us believe in the death penalty, we certainly should believe in it with reference to a premeditated murder committed on a President of the United States...
...allow students to satisfy the requirement by any courses in the Catalogue (excepting elementary language courses and Air, Naval, and Military Science), duly divided into areas (the Constable proposal), perhaps with the proviso, suggested by Professor Birkhoff, that students were expected, but not required, to meet the requirement with courses labelled General Education...
...lawyers who would draft a provisional constitution and supervise the convening of a national assembly. The assembly would draw up a new set of laws, and the whole package -constitution and statutes-would be submitted to a referendum in 1965. Khanh would oversee everything in the meantime, with one proviso: if at the end of 60 days "the chief executive still has the confidence of the government, he will go on with his work. Otherwise he will step down." But confidence in South Viet Nam is a singular commodity...