Word: restorationism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
The hunger strikers' principal demand is for restoration of the "special category status" that prisoners convicted of politically motivated crimes were granted by the Tory government of Edward Heath in 1972. At that time, several hunger strikers, who also came close to death, persuaded William Whitelaw, then Secretary of...
Until 1932, peacetime federal government meant very little. Americans believed in letting money do as it pleased, with unfortunate results for many people from the start and for almost everybody in the decade of America's greatest economic collapse. For the next 40 years bureaus sprang full-blown from the...
Muskie also suggested that top Administration officials would willingly fly to Iran to negotiate the hostage release directly. Carter, stumping in Ohio, promised a three-point response to a hostage release: 1) the unfreezing of Tehran's assets, 2) an end to the trade embargo, which could mean the...
The legal reforms include restoration of the writ of habeas corpus. Unfortunately, that comes too late to help Chun's political enemies, like Opposition Leader Kim Dae Jung, who is now appealing a death sentence on sedition charges.
In light of the constant political repression and the continued violation of human rights, we feel it important that both the United States Government and Harvard University do everything in their power to relay to the Pinochet government the view that an end to human rights abuses and a complete...