Word: charter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other business, councillors received a report from the Mayor's Green Ribbon Committee to Research and Propose Minimum Rents, but forestalled discussion of the report. Sullivan charter-righted and order that would have referred the report to the city's Rent Control Board and requested that they hold a public meeting to discuss its contents...
...work on behalf of Charter 77, a human-rights organization he helped found, Havel spent more than four years in jail. His latest internment ended last May; he had served half of an eight-month sentence after speaking on Western radio. The charge: inciting antigovernment demonstrations. It seemed no small irony that last week, largely through Havel's efforts, the street protests were halted to give the government and opposition some breathing space to pursue negotiations...
...brisk rate of change has already created stress fractures between the students, who have their own strike committee, and the Civic Forum, whose leaders are drawn largely from Charter 77, an umbrella opposition group set up in 1977 to defend human and civil rights in Czechoslovakia. The students, who were faster to draw up a concise list of demands, have been irked by the Civic Forum's failure to include younger voices in its deliberations. "The Civic Forum is more experienced," says Monika Pajerova, 23, "but we are more radical." Some within the Civic Forum regard the students as "children...
Sullivan also charter-righted an order about the language of rent control legislation and a home-rule petition to the Senate and House of Representatives...
Plainclothes police in Prague prevented several reporters from attending a scheduled news conference on the Smid case in the home of Charter 77 spokesperson Dana Nemcova...