Word: trusteeship
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...modified by foreign aid to Angolan factions--and the impact of Western financial aid which is not likely to cease with a non-intervention pact. South Africa--the major threat to Angolan sovereignty--has already shown a flagrant disregard for international agreements in its refusal to relinquish its U.N. trusteeship of Namibia. U.S. aid to Angolan factions has been CIA-controlled, and thus is no more likely than South African interference to cease as a result of an international agreement...
...spend my time watching and discussing it. I am haunted by a quotation from Nietzsche: 'It is not my function to be a flyswatter.' " -British Actor-Director Richard Attenborough was "thrilled beyond measure" when he received from No. 10 Downing Street a letter offering him a trusteeship in London's prestigious Tate Gallery. So thrilled, he later remembered, that he neglected to open a second letter from the same address. It contained a polite inquiry as to whether Attenborough would accept a British knighthood. "It has not fully sunk in yet," said Attenborough happily last week after...
...help the President finance his lavish estate. According to the same sources, the purchase price of that parcel of land was exactly $100,000. Rebozo denied that any of the Hughes money was used in the transaction, claiming that those funds lay idle without even collecting interest during his trusteeship...
...private communication, Pusey reaffirmed this stance, saying: "There has been no change in Harvard's attitude about Black Rock Forest. We have no desire to have land under our trusteeship used for the purposes proposed...
...sentence letter to a member of Scenic Hudson, which from the beginning has been the Storm King project's most active opposition. "There has been no change in Harvard's attitude about Black Rock Forest," Pusey wrote. "We have no desire to have land under our trusteeship used for the purposes proposed...