Word: acte
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...branch is too much to ask? The time for congressional input is now--before war breaks out and the president's emergency powers give him ultimate latitude in determining day-to-day foreign policy. If Congress wants to play a role the United States' Persian Gulf policy, it must act immediately...
Congressional leaders should demand today that Bush follow through with his suggestion to reconvene Congress. Congress should also make Bush demonstrate that he has exhausted all non-military options. Congress should pass a resolution invoking the War Powers Act; if Bush continues to insist that the Act does not apply because troops do not face "imminent hostilities," Congress should take the issue to the judiciary...
...Prime Minister came to the same conclusion by relying on one of her favorite axioms: "You act on what your mind tells you, not what your heart tells you." Late Wednesday night Thatcher discussed her plight with Denis, her husband of 39 years, in their second-floor apartment at 10 Downing Street. His succinct advice: "Margaret, it is time...
Once her mind was made up, Thatcher had to act quickly to block the snowballing bid for leadership by Heseltine. She dislikes the ambitious, 57- year-old self-made millionaire as much for his views (she considers some of them dangerously socialistic, particularly his willingness to intervene in industrial policy) as for his flamboyant public personality. For her successor, Thatcher preferred one of two Cabinet ministers: Chancellor of the Exchequer John Major, 47, or Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd, 60, both of whom, out of loyalty, could not declare themselves as candidates until the Prime Minister retired from the contest...
...school was started in 1976 at the time when the Indian Self- Determination Act was passed, when the Federal Government was encouraging Native Americans to take their education into their own hands. Until the 1970s, the dominant principle of the Bureau of Indian Affairs was assimilation, and the government was content to let Navajo culture wither away...