Word: sittings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...timetable for democratization. The first task is for the government to release all political prisoners and restore all political rights, including those of Kim Dae Jung. Also, the government should stop hunting down political fugitives. Then we have to sit down with the ruling party and work out the constitutional change. The constitution has to be finished some time in September, with the presidential election law and the National Assembly election law finished in early October. The presidential election should take place in late October or early November, before the weather gets too cold...
...etched in customs and laws but not contained in a single document. The constitution has evolved in this way, says Historian Philip Norton, because, since the Norman invasion in 1066, there has been no point at which the system "has been completely swept away, allowing those in power to sit down and create from first principles a new and clearly delineated form of government...
...couple of casual contributors put out their 14-page mimeographed paper. They thought they were being ironic, funny, irreverent. They included references to unresponsive counselors, the selling of term papers, sex, drugs, cheating. "Don't try to cheat unless you're really sneaky, have years of experience and sit way in the back of the class," they wrote in a parody of an advice column. To a would-be dropout, they preached, "Just stay home, get a job at some gas station, get married, have a couple of kids, and before you know...
...week's end the party plenum demolished any doubts about Gorbachev's strength in the Kremlin by appointing three of his supporters to full membership in the Politburo. Half of the 14 men who now sit on the ruling body are regarded as Gorbachev allies. Most notable was the elevation of Propaganda Chief Alexander Yakovlev, 63, who has overseen the Soviet media campaign to promote reform. In addition, General Dmitri Yazov, 63, the new Defense Minister, was made a non-voting member of the Politburo. His predecessor, Marshal Sergei Sokolov, 75, was dismissed in disgrace last month over the military...
...briefly detained during Friday's demonstration in Seoul, joined other party members Friday night in a sit-in at party headquarters...