Word: rule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...result, Congress this year rejected a batch of legislation, notably: a new civil rights bill with a controversial open-housing clause, a proposal to repeal the right-to-work section of the Taft-Hartley law, a measure giving home rule to the District of Columbia. Beyond that, Johnson's foreign-aid requests were slashed by nearly $500 million, and Administration measures to reform the Electoral College, create four-year House terms, and overhaul the 31-year-old unemployment-compensation system were never even brought to a final vote...
...file a motion with France's Supreme Court invoking the Franco-Moroccan judicial convention of 1956. Under that agreement, French and Moroccan nationals must be tried in their national courts for offenses committed in the other country. It would also be months before the French court could rule on that motion. In the meantime, Dlimi was comfortably ensconced in a VIP cell at Paris' Santé Prison, and l'affaire Ben Barka was where King Hassan wanted it-hopelessly enmeshed in endless legal tangles...
...first reconsidered their policy and then put off executing it, as Prime Minister Wilson parried criticism from all sides. He even altered the Labour Government's policy dramatically, in hopes of bringing about some sort of settlement. Britain now stands by "Six Principles" which assure "unimpeded progress toward majority rule." The principles allow for an interim independent whit government, with strict constitutional guarantees for increased African participation and eventual take-over...
...position is a near-total retreat from the former demand that majority rule be effected before independence would be granted. Nevertheless, Wilson was able to parlay the policy into a major diplomatic victory. Observers had predicted that last month's Commonwealth meetings in London would collapse under pressure from militant African representatives. Instead, Commonwealth leaders issued a joint communique in which they affirmed the Six Principles, demanded that Smith submit, and threatened to request that the United Nations enforce mandatory economic sanctions if he refused...
...spark speculation about terms of a settlement -- at least in many African capitals. There are rumors that the former governor, Sir Humphrey Gibbs, might reopen his office as a symbolic gesture. The nation might then be granted independence and be given 50 years to make the transition to majority rule. The rumors of such an arrangement have of course angered a number of African leaders...