Word: redraft
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...imperial crescent of stone buildings in the heart of Vienna. The locale was rich with inspiration: in 1815 the Congress of Vienna convened at the nearby chancellery to redraw the political face of Europe. Last week's gathering of 35 foreign ministers ushered in a modern-day reprise to redraft the Continent's military map. The talks, called CFE -- Negotiations on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe -- are destined to be the arms-control battlefield of the 1990s...
Baker and Shevardnadze meet in Vienna with foreign ministers from 33 other nations and kick off a parley to redraft Europe's military map. -- Greece's embattled Papandreou fights back against an accuser. -- A journey into the heart of El Salvador's guerrilla war. -- American journalist Terry Anderson begins his fifth year of captivity in Beirut: a look at his tragic ordeal...
...Brazilian constitution provides for a six-year presidential term, but Neves has indicated that he will support direct elections for 1988. After the balloting, he called for a constituent assembly to redraft the constitution to permit a popular vote. Despite the limited election, it seems clear that Neves, who will take office on March 15, is a popular choice. A poll published Friday in O Globo, an influential Rio newspaper, showed that 66.6% of some 2,100 voters questioned in eleven state capitals said they had confidence...
...Administration was slow in assessing the political damage. A worried White House senior staff called in Agriculture Secretary John Block for consultations about whether or not to redraft the proposals. Apparently as a result, the subject was not broached in the President's Sept. 24 budget address. The following day Stockman blasted the proposed regulations as "a bureaucratic goof and Block formally announced they would be pulled back for further study. Added Stockman tactlessly: "I don't think the little catsup episode is going to have any great significance...
...ruled that a nonpartisan commission redraw the districts with the help of a computer. The embarrassing result: two Republican incumbents were dumped into the same district. "It must have been a Democratic computer," said an aide to Governor Robert Ray. The legislature quickly ignored the computer and decided to redraft its own plan so that none of the state's three Republican Congressmen will be imperiled. -By James Kelly. Reported by Christopher Ogden/Chicago, with other U.S. bureaus